Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:20:24 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Ken Arromdee <arromdee AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Help, also Windows 2000 help...
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On 31 Oct 2000, Ken Arromdee wrote:

> >> There's nothing obvious in the docs about the syntax used in one.
> >The syntax is documented in the kb.info file.  From the DOS prompt,
> >type "info know hidden djgpp"
> 
> I don't have kb.info.  The only packages I got were grep, less, fileutils,
> tar, and gzip.  I also tried install.exe but it proved useless.

kb.info comes with the basic DJGPP development environment,
djdev203.zip.  Did you get DJGPP with some book or something?
Otherwise, I don't understand how come you don't have the basic
package, without it nothing will work smoothly for you.

If you did install from a CDROM which comes with some book, perhaps
the installation program (supplied by the vendor of the book, it's not
part of the DJGPP project) did a bad job, and djgpp.env, kb.info, and
other files are somewhere on the CD?

Anyway, I'd suggest to use the packages from the DJGPP FTP sites, they
are usually up-to-date and don't suffer from bogus installation
programs.

> >> Also, I'm running on Windows 2000 and when I run "less" it has an odd
> >> behavior.  Either it is only accepting keypresses in twos, or it is only
> >> displaying the screen after every two keypresses, which makes the program
> >> virtually unusable.  Is this a known problem and is there any workaround or
> >> any chance that I can get a different version and it would work?
> >What version of Less is that?
> >I didn't have any problems with Less 340 on Windows NT 4.
> 
> It is 358.  I just tried 340 and it gave me the same problem.

I don't have access to Windows 2000 to see if Less works for me.  Can
someone test this, please?

> I also ran into another problem: if I have a cmd.exe window set up to have
> more lines than are in the window, so I can scroll back, any attempt to run a
> djgpp program causes all the scrollback to be gone with the scroll bar
> starting at the top again.

That's a known problem with NT.  Unfortunately, we don't know about
any work-arounds.

> At least the long filenames work on Windows 2000.

Yes, but not much more.  I'd generally recommend DJGPP users to stay
away of Windows 2000, there are too many problems there which make any
serious DJGPP development all but impossible.  (See section 3.3 of the
DJGPP FAQ list for the list of major known problems.)

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