Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/18/04:28:53
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mr. Veli Suorsa wrote:
> >> Maybe you should make this "standard directory" ;-)
> >
> >Maybe.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> It is just a waste of time to search documentation from un-standard
> directories.
Why do you need to search? The docs directories hold printed versions
of the manuals. You are supposed to print them, and then get rid of
those monstrously large files.
> >> Directory of C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS
> >> BASH-2 04 <DIR>
> >> FILUTIL3 16 <DIR>
> >> GCC-2 952 <DIR>
> >> - Why g77 / f77 documentation is here?
> >
> >Because g77 is part of the GCC package.
>
> Should directory's name be C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS\G77 ?
No, I don't think so.
> >What's not user-friendly about Info?
>
> So many stars-lines from start page and not even alphapetical order!
They are in the logical order: the Info system itself first (so that
you could use Info), then the compiler, the library, and the basic
development tools such as the debugger, then the utilities.
> You should use menus in info!
The stand-alone Info reader was designed to run on bare-bones text
terminal without a mouse. If you want a more graphical Info reader,
get one of those mentioned in section 5.1 of the DJGPP FAQ list.
> >> and a direct port to Rhide (if possible).
> >
> >RHIDE already has an internal Info reader.
>
> Lets take an example:
> 1) I write a C program in Rhide.
> 2) I want to use intent program while writing. What F-key?
> 3) And read intent's instructions (was it really right, e.g. intent -mh -i1
> done.c)? What F-key?
I don't use RHIDE, so I wouldn't know. The stand-alone Info reader
has the --apropos option, so "info --apropos indent" should give you
what you want. For finding the instruction to run a utility, use the
option --usage, like in "info --usage indent".
I suggest to read the section in the file README.1ST called "Reading
the documentation, or A Crash Course in Info". It describes some of
the more efficient facilities of the Info reader.
> I can read C library (libc reference) from Rhide, but where is Fortran (and
> pascal and other utilities) library?
They probably don't exist. You get the documentation which comes with
the original GNU packages; whatever they supply, you have on your
machine. If they didn't supply documentation for some library, it
isn't available.
> >> P.S. Is it possible to make with Gnu utilities from
> >> a .html file a readable .txt file and vice versa?
> >
> >You should be able to find such programs
>
> Please, tell me a good program (so many possible).
I don't know any particular program, perhaps someone else here does.
You could also search the SimTel.NET repository.
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