Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:02:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Justin Johnson <Justin AT jjavp DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: HELP! info problem.


On Sat, 29 Jul 1995, Justin Johnson wrote:

> However, I am getting 'Cannot find top node' when selecting the 
> majority of menu items in info. This is done when in the directory.
> 
> I belive all the files are there because I can edit them.

Did you read the DJGPP FAQ list (available as faq102.zip from the same 
place you get DJGPP)?  It includes this discussion in section 6.15:

6.15  Q: When I run the Info browser, it tells me it cannot find the node
         "Top".
      A: Check your installation of info files.  The file DJGPP.ENV in the
         root of your DJGPP installation mentions the variable INFOPATH
         which should point to the directory where Info looks for its
         files.  It must find there a file named ``dir'' and other files
         with .iNN extension, where NN is a number.

         Assuming the above checks OK, and all the necessary info files
         are indeed installed in those directories (did you remember to
         give that -d switch to PKUNZIP?), it might be that some of the
         files were edited with a DOS-based editor, which converted the
         Newline characters to the CR/LF pairs.  The DOS port of Info
         distributed with DJGPP in the txiNNNbn.zip file doesn't like
         this, because this invalidates the tag tables included with the
         files, which Info uses to quickly find the various nodes.

         To work around this, run DTOU.EXE on the offending files, it will
         strip the extra CR characters to make Info happy.  DTOU is in
         your bin/ subdirectory of the main DJGPP directory.

         You can also download a version of Info which can read Unix- and
         DOS-style text files alike, from DJ's server, at one of these
         addresses:

           http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/contrib/info.exe
           ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/contrib/info.exe