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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:16:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Aaron Gray <aarongray AT beeb DOT net>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: makeinfo --html index problem
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Aaron Gray wrote:

> > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >
> > > I am having problems with using makeinfo for making HTML output. The
> > > index.html file seems corrupt and makeinfo --html is reporting a missing
> > > TOC.
> > >
> > > Hope you can help,
> > > Aaron
> >
> > And what does this have to do with Clippy, you ask? ;-)
> >
> > Hi, there, <looking at the notepad>, Aaron.  <SCRIBBLE> It looks like
> > you're trying to report a bug.
>
>     I am not sure if it is a bug or my useage of the tool, but I fell it may
> well possibly be a bug.

Ok, no more mister nice Clippy...

> >  <TWIST INTO CYGWIN LOGO>
> > What would you like to do?
>
>     Have some one who is familuar with makeinfo and info files test it for me :)

Did you run 'makeinfo --help'?  Did you read the output?

> > = Read the ample bug reporting instructions at <http://cygwin.com/bugs.html>?
>
>     Preferably not.

Perhaps the naming is unfortunate, but the page does describe how to
report any problem with Cygwin, not just bugs.

> > = Post the exact error message you get from Makeinfo?
>
> > = Share with this list the input files for makeinfo that trigger this
> >   problem, so the others have at least a prayer of reproducing your
> >   problem?
>
> Okay.
>
>     makeinfo --html gcc.info
                          ^^^^
One discrepancy right here: you don't run makeinfo on .info files, you run
it on .texi files (which, if you had read the output of 'makeinfo --help',
you'd know already).  FYI, I don't get any reports of the missing TOC.

> [gnu/index.html snipped]

Not that it's very relevant anymore, but you should have included this
file as an attachment, as your mailer surely screwed up the non-printable
characters in that file.  Just a hint for the future.

> > <TWIST BACK INTO A PAPERCLIP, GROW HAIR>
> > = Start a whole new thread so that people with threaded mail readers don't
> > pick it up as part of the old thread?
> > <KEEP BLINKING EYES AD NAUSEAUM>...
> > Igor
>
> meow....
> Aaron

Now you're just trying to be cute...  :-p
	Igor
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