Message-ID: <38B3E19B.12522385@corel.com> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:33:15 -0500 From: Jonathan Meunier X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: (newbie) Texinfo/DJGPP/gzip questions References: <38B34372 DOT A7FF569 AT videotron DOT ca> <890ae9$mif$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 120.150.4.236 X-Trace: 23 Feb 2000 08:31:50 -0500, 120.150.4.236 Lines: 44 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > > In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Trancelucid wrote: > > > How does Texinfo knows to load djgppfaq.info when it is given "faq" as > > argument (ie: "info faq ") ? As far as I can see, this seems > > hard-coded.. plz confirm. > > No, it isn't hard-coded. There's a central menu of .info files. To see > it, just call "info" without any further arguments. Arguments on the > to the info command are treated as (abbreviated) names of menu > entries, like in the 'm' command of info. That's how you can reach the > documentation of printf via "info libc alpha printf". That's exactly why I was confused. I runned Info without any parameters, and there was this list with all the info files for various applications (most of the GNU apps for DJGPP), so I thought it was hard-coded because it listed apps I didn't even have installed.. but thanks to all those who replied, I learned that it is in fact in the info/DIR file, and more detailed information on that subject should be in the Texinfo manuals (I had looked in the Info manuals but couldn't find anything on that topic). > There's an entry "FAQ" in there that leads to djgppfaq.info. If you > really want to, you can edit this central menu. It's the file > "info/dir" in your DJGPP tree. I thought it was in the first few lines of every .info files. eg: djgppfaq.info has the line "* FAQ (djgppfaq)" in it.. I thought Info read the first lines of every .info files in the /info dir, but as my little experiments modifying this line (and the DIR file) proved, it is not the fact. > > What's the difference between gpp.exe and gxx.exe? In the FAQ, both are > > referred as a port of g++, but they're not the same size. > > gxx.exe was the name of the program, originally, and it was part of > djdev, not the gpp package. Later on, after some functionality had > been added, the name was changed to 'gpp.exe'. If you have gpp,exe, > use it. Otherwise stick with gxx.exe. Thanks, .(Trancelucid). . Jaune .