Message-ID: <3896D445.9F52F284@ujf-grenoble.fr> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:40:37 +0100 From: Maurice Lombardi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [fr] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: fr,it,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii , salvador CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LFN problem with info ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii a écrit : > In a nutshell, "info foo" instructs it to look for the *menu item* > `foo' in the file DIR, while "info -f foo" instructs it to look for a > *file* `foo' (with or without known Info extensions like .inf, .info, > etc.). > > So, "info gcc" works because the file DIR has a menu entry which > begins with "gcc", not because gcc.inf fits into DOS 8+3 limits. > And "info info-stnd" does NOT work because there's no menu entry in > DIR which begins with "info-stnd". The menu entry for the stand-alone > Info reader is "Info-Standalone", so if you say "info info-stand" it > *will* work, regardless of whether the file name exceeds DOS 8+3 > limits. OK you are right (of course you know !!!). So the only remaining question is for SET: why infview is not able to load (longer than 8 name) files info-stnd.info or textutils.info even through the File/Open info file (F3) dialog, when this file is visible in the scroll box: in fact I just checked that it is neither able to open them from the DIR. file. Even stranger: fileutils.info works ! To be sure I removed cleanly both with cd \djgpp rm -f @manifest\txt20b.mft rm -f @manifest\fil316b.mft and reinstalled both with unzip32 \installs\djgpp\txt20b.zip unzip32 \installs\djgpp\fil316b.zip Name Numeric Tails are on, short names are FILEUT~1.INF TEXTUT~1.INF and infview reads fileutils.info but not textutils.info The only difference I see is that during the remove rm -f complains c:/djgpp/bin/rm: man: is a directory c:/djgpp/bin/rm: man/cat1: is a directory for txt20b.mft and nothing for fil316b.mft but this is a defect of the txt20b.mft file which contains indeed two spurious lines man/ and man/cat1 Anybody is able to reproduce this kwirk ? Many thanks for your work. -- Maurice Lombardi Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex FRANCE Tel: 33 (0)4 76 51 47 51 Fax: 33 (0)4 76 51 45 44 mailto:Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr