Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:19:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Kris Heidenstrom <kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Some comments and questions
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> >Info reader bug - when I invoke 'info' with a keyword it doesn't know
> >about (e.g. 'info djasm'), it reports 'bad command or filename'
> >(probably reported by command.com) then hangs.	I'm running MS-DOS
> >6.20 and using CWSDPMI 0.90+ (r3) and info 2.16.  This seems like a
> >bug that would have been picked up by now - maybe there's something
> >strange about my setup.  Any suggestions?
> When info can't find an info file on a subject, it passes it off to `man'.
> If there was a Unix-style man page on the subject, and you had a `man'
> command installed, you would see it. Since there isn't, and apparently you
> don't, you see the results of `man djasm'-- "bad command or file name". You
> could install a no-op `man' command to get rid of that, like an empty
> `man.bat' file on your path, or you can just ignore it.

Another possibility is that it didn't actually hang, but just took a long 
time to do something, and Kris got impatient.  This can happen when your 
DJGPP.ENV file is set incorrectly (if you edited it).