X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Allan" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: update of /beta/mak380b.zip Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:34:30 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13jtrf1o4n95he4@corp.supernews.com> References: <200711121727 DOT lACHREXe017381 AT delorie DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT supernews DOT com Lines: 26 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Juan Manuel Guerrero" wrote in message news:200711121727 DOT lACHREXe017381 AT delorie DOT com... > Today I have noticed that the make.info file of /beta/mak380b.zip is > broken. > This broken info file produced a SIGSEGV in my info reader that still > needs to > investigated. I have replaced the broken file with a new one. No other > changes > have been done to the containt of the binary archive. You do not need to > download this new binary archive You only need to open the make.info file > and substitute: s/info-/i/. It seems to be that the info files have been > produced on a system with LFN support and later renamed. Unfortunately it > has been forgotten to change the file name strings in make.info > accordingly. > > Regards, > Juan M. Guerrero > Okay, you gave me an incentive to finally install GNU Emacs for Windows 22.1. I had to hunt for the gpg signing key in order to verify the download ; I used info-zip to extract the .zip file. I haven't used Emacs in quite a while; the last time was on a VAX (!) . Have you tried opening the file in Emacs to avoid the error you encountered? http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html .