From: covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com (John Covici)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: info file imcompatability ?
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:52:55 -0500
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on Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:12:40 GMT Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> in
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>
>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, John Covici wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I am having trouble getting the various info readers to read each
>> others files.  For instance, I typed info at the DOS prompt, and got the
>> directory for djgpp, but it wouldn't go to the jed one or the emacs one.
>>  I tried
>>  g and in the minibuffer (f:/jed/info)dir, but it said the file was not
>>  found.  I also tried the same thing with the emacs and got the same
>>  result.
>
>Are you using the DJGPP.ENV file which came with djdev201.zip?  Did
>you maybe edit that file?  These problems should never happen with
>stock DJGPP.ENV, at least for Info and Emacs (I don't use jed), since
>DJGPP.ENV already sets INFOPATH for both Info and Emacs.  It works for
>me.
>
>If your DJGPP.ENV is the original one, then you'd need to dig deeper
>and post some more information about your system.  Possible causes to
>look into:
>
>     1) You installed Emacs outside the DJGPP directory.  DJGPP.ENV
>        assumes that Emacs is installed in %DJDIR%/gnu/emacs, where
>        DJDIR is the top directory of the DJGPP installation.

I did install it outside, but I changed the entry to /emacs-20.2/info
which should work.
>        Solution: copy the Emacs directory to where it belongs.
>
>     2) You are running Windows 95 and have some snafu related to long
>        file names.  Solution: try setting LFN=y in the environment.

It is set already and I unzipped emacs using winzip which is preserving
the lfn.

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         John Covici
          covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com