Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:56:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Plum <enoch AT terranet DOT terranet DOT ab DOT ca>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Peter: Can't get info to work; and thanks for prior help


On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, Peter Plum wrote:

> Thanks to all who answered my other questions.
> -lpc worked fine.

Guess nobody of those who answered told you to get and read the DJGPP FAQ 
list (the problems with -lpc are also described there).

> Haven't been able to access any of the docs or info
> in gcc.
> Entered the following line at the DOS prompt:
> 
> info gcc "C Extensions" "Extended Asm"
> 
> ....and received the following response:
> 
> info.exe: dir: file not found

The FAQ describes possible problems with Info and their solutions in
section 6.15.  If none of the solutions proposed there doesn't seem 
appropriate or doesn't work, please try going into the directory where a 
file called `dir' resides on your system, and call Info thusly:

	info -d . gcc "C Extensions" "Extended Asm"

Did this work?  If so, then you need to check the INFOPATH settings in 
your DJGPP.ENV file; or just set it as a normal environment variable from 
the DOS prompt.

Personally, I'd advise dumping all of the Info files which came with 
DJGPP into a single directory (like djgpp/docs or djgpp/info) together 
with the file `dir', and changing the INFOPATH variable to point there.  
This seems to solve many problems with Info.

Oh, and the latest version of the FAQ is available as faq102.zip from the 
same place you get DJGPP.  From what I understand, you started using 
DJGPP not long ago, so I think you'd benefit a lot from reading it.