Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" To: "'J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk'" Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Where is info? (was Re: Installing Octave for Windows 95) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:12:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am finding this rather tedious. The octave distribution does not have it, but octave needs it. The B19 distribution doesn't have it. Sure, but we can only break that cycle if someone contributes back a tarball or an info executable. As a fatter of fact, I am simply running Octave under cygwin _without_ the info reader. I copied the info files into Emacs info directory and read them via Emacs. I have found a source distribution called texinfo which seems to have it. I couldn't find a distribution with just info. Correct. That's the GNU source for it. Dunno how hard it is to port info to cygwin. P.S. In my opinion 101% of installation instructions do not contain sufficient information. They assume information elsewhere, mainly in the reader's head, because it is in the writer's head. By all means, if you find omissions: let everybody know. Best is to provide patches, or a freash README.foo or whatever so that the next person doesn't hit the stumble at the same hurdle. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com