Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:23:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: "makeinfo --force"
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Ralph Proctor wrote:

> Has anybody ever had to use "--force" to get a good info file?

No, and you shouldn't have to.

> Trying to convert a particular .tex file to an info file with
> "makeinfo calc.tex" did not work. It went through the long process of
> converting every segment with
> no error messages, but at the end there was the blinking cursor forever--I
> had to reboot.

If you didn't try the latest makeinfo.exe from v2gnu/txi312b.zip
(makeinfo.exe should be dated 26 June 1998), please try it.  If you
already have that version installed, please tell which version of calc
did you try that with, and I will try to look into it.

> This is the first time I have tried the "--force" extension. It
> looks like a valuable trick.

Using an irrelevant option to hide a possible bug isn't *my* idea of a
valuable trick, sorry.