From: "Ya'qub" <rick AT nct-active DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: Documentation on Non-ANSI features, and Allegro problem!
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:48:40 -0000
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Hello,
    I'm not sure whether this will be entirely relevant but I'll try anyway.
I had similar problems with info not loading any information on gprof even
though I had a gprof.inf file in the info directory. The way I made it work
is to use the install-info program which is in the djgpp\bin directory. If I
remember correctly, the command I used was
install-info gprof.inf dir
and that's obviously in the djgpp\info directory. Maybe you could try
install-info libc.inf dir
You should have a file called dir in the djgpp\info directory. Hope this
helps and sorry if this is not relevant at all.
regards,
Ya'qub

Graeme Fenwick wrote in message <369544f2 DOT 0 AT mercury DOT nildram DOT co DOT uk>...
>Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>>Asking help for problems with using Info is NOT off-topic on the DJGPP
>>forum.
>>> Trouble
>>> is, it seemed to install nicely when I set up DJGPP after getting the
>files
>>> off the web site, but I can't get it to read in any other .inf
>>> files.
>>What does that mean, exactly?  How did you try to to invoke Info, and
>>what happened when you did?
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>Info on its own is fine.
>I don't want to go too much into it, as I found what I was looking for
>whilst running info. However, the main problem related to this- you
>mentioned the function name, I thought, "Where can I find information on
>this function?". So I used W95's find facility to find files (in the DJGPP
>directories) containing the function name. The one that turned up was
>libc.inf (or whatever the name was), and then I realised I didn't know how
>to load it into Info.
>Later on, by browsing the tree, I discovered it had already been set up
with
>this file, and got the information I required. However, I still want to go
>back and see if Info comes with more information as to how the tree is set
>up and so on (I get the impression I haven't understood the program's
design
>entirely yet). As I already know some of it, I'd rather go back and have
>another look at the Info files on Info (!) first.
>
>>> It doesn't even have a /? screen because it's a ******* Unix port.
>>Of course, it does: just type "info --help" and you will see it.
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>I didn't mean it didn't have a help screen, just that the MSDOS style /?
>didn't apply here as it was a Unix port.
>Believe it or not, some of us non-Unixers wouldn't know about that --help
>switch thing. I'll have to give that Unix-on-a-floppy thing a try
(Tomsrtbt-
>not a catchy name, but a nice idea).
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>Graeme Fenwick   |   gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk
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