Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 11:18:15 +0400 (EDT)
From: kaikow AT standards DOT com (Howard)
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping a new user of DJGPP 
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: kaikow AT standards DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il id AA19435; Thu, 11 Aug 94 11:51:42 +0300 writes:

: AFAIK, you must convert the info texinfo source files to dvi, then
: print them.  This assumes that you want to print files you are browsing
: with Info; other files are just plain ascii, AFAIK.  There used to be
: a version of documentation in PostScript format on omnigate, but now
: it probably would be out of sync with the new version 1.12 of DJGPP.

Thanx.

I am trying to find out which files to get for a PC version of Tex and LaTex.

: You have all the necessary files.  Look in the directory %DJDIR%/docs/texinfo.
: There is a file there called INFO.INF, which should be called just INFO
: (without the .INF extension).  Whenever you press ``h'' inside Info, it
: looks for a node ``Help-Small-Screen'' inside a file called INFO.  This is
: hard-coded inside Info reader.  So just rename that file to INFO, and
: you'll get your help.

Help-Small-Screen is indeed in info.inf. However, when I rename info.inf to
info, I still get the same error. But, being persistent, I then tried invoking
INFO while I was in the djgpp\docs\texinfo directory. Then "h" worked, so
it's a path problem of some type. Am I missing any environment variables? I
thought that I had all that README.DOC asked for. I have

CONFIG=FullConfig
COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\C700\BIN;C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\WINWORD;C:\EXCEL;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;
C:\MOUSE;C:\FAX\CAL\BIN;C:\PROFILER;C:\UTIL;C:\SPOOL
DJGPP=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env
GO32=2r1
MAILER=C:\util\BM.EXE
PCELM=C:\mail
BMHRC=C:\mail\bm.rc
JED_HOME=C:\editors
JED_ROOT=c:\editors\jed096-1\jed
TZ=EDT4
LIB=C:\C700\LIB;C:\C700\MFC\LIB
INCLUDE=C:\C700\INCLUDE;C:\C700\MFC\INCLUDE
HELPFILES=C:\C700\HELP\*.HLP
INIT=C:\C700\INIT
TEMP=C:\TEMP
TMP=C:\TEMP
TMPDIR=C:\TEMP
GO32TMP=C:\TEMP
PROMPT=$P$G
windir=C:\WINDOWS

: DJ, I would suggest to change this in some future maintenance release.
: Probably, the makefile which generates Info files, should be changed.
: Maybe it's even GNU's fault, as I remember that problem popping from
: the beginning of times.

Some problems seem to never go away.