Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:11:10 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Problem with Info

   > > I'm a new DJGPP user, I installed DJGPP for only two days.
   > > When I typed 'info -f libgplus.inf', Info telled me that
   > > 'Cannot not find the node "Top".'
   > 
   Actually, i had the same problem, and after inspecting the files in the 
   archive libgplus.zip, it seems that the file LIBGPLUS.INF is in DOS 
   (CR/LF) format. In other words running DTOU.EXE on the file will fix the 
   problem. I can't figure how more people didn't run into this 
   problem, and i just wanted to direct someone towards the problem. I ftp'd 
   my archives from oak.oaklan.edu if it helps. 

Many people *do* run into this problem.  It's a frequently asked
question, and it *is* in the FAQ.

The real problem is GNU politics.  Richard Stallman is a Leninist in
at least one sense.  He believes that immiserization of MS-DOG [sic]
users will lead to a more rapid migration to sensible systems.
Therefore GNU does not support alternative "newline" sequences.  (Note
also his decades-long campaign to suppress the use of Ctrl-H for
delete-previous-character.)

There are conflicting reports on whether an info reader can be made to
function properly (both getting references correct and doing it
efficiently via tags) with files in both formats.  Some people say
yes, some say no.  The issue is that the extra <CR> in each line
changes byte offsets in the node tags index, leading to "node not
found" errors in rare cases.

Why the docs don't automatically get run through dtou before
distribution is presumably that DJ does the compiler, the libraries,
the docs, the extender, and everything, *and* has a day job.  If you
are at least as reliable as he is, and want to volunteer to maintain
the docs, and make sure that they get written and tagged properly, I'm
sure he'd love the help :-)

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