Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 12:01:34 -0500
From: fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu (frank donahoe)
To: dj AT ctron DOT com
Subject: info
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


I had no trouble with info files using DEMACS's `texinfo-format-buffer' even
using `texinfmt.el' version 2.30 of 18 May 1993.  Even a novice such as I
could locate the e-lisp lines which need to be changed to set to my liking
the numbering of split files (*.00x so it sorts nicely in the directory).
Alas, emacs-19 supports `makeinfo-buffer' but not `texinfo-format-buffer',
at least in its early releases.  So OEmacs, for all its virtues, doesn't
produce info files.  I am reliably informed that 'makeinfo-buffer' requires
a multitasking operating system.  Thus the need for the stand-alone makeinfo.

Never did I experience difficulties once I learned not to trust MS edit.
But should a node be missed in the future, I shall know what to do. ;=)

I had hoped that having the GNU CD-ROM, May 1993 Ed., would alleviate most
of the space problems with having the info files on the hard disk.  This
has problems of it own, but not as bad as I first thought, though for the
wrong reasons.  There are not that many info files on the CD-ROM!

For the unsplit ROM'ed files, inserting the correct bath in DIR is all that
is required.  For some reason associated with standard formats, the split
info files on the CD-ROM have names in which underscore replaces hyphen.
This means that the top node of the split files calls files named *-1,*-2,
etc., and the file name on disk is *_1, *_2, etc.  The solution is to copy
the top node of each info chain to hard disk, edit it to the correct path
and filenames with underscore, and direct DIR to the copy.  I hope that some
thought will ge given to this matter for future CD-ROM releases.  Perhaps
the ymtransl.tbl could be accessed by the infoviewer.  Or some agreement
should be reached!

What would be nice is to have the files giving the documentation for changes
in more recent releases in a form that could be accessed separately via
patch to the top node.




 

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