Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:04:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Burton Radons/Lothloriel <loth2 AT islandnet DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Printing info pages
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Burton Radons/Lothloriel wrote:

> In the info command list, it states that 'INFO_PRINT_COMMAND' should
> be set to the command you wish to use to print (invoked: M-x
> print-node).  How should I set that to print to a file/device?  It
> says it would pipe it to the command, but I didn't seem to get
> anything from info... my test command was 'copy con lpt1', and similar
> output of the copy con to a file produced nothing as well.  If you use
> just 'lpt1' it'll try to invoke it as a command, and hence doesn't
> work.

"copy con lpt1" won't work, because it reads the CON device rather than
the (redirected) stdin.  If you have a DOS port of `cat', write a batch
file which says "cat > prn" and set INFO_PRINT_COMMAND to point to the
pathname of that batch file.  If you don't have `cat', the easiest way to
set this up is to write a trivial program which reads from stdin and
writes to stdprn.  Compile that program, point INFO_PRINT_COMMAND to it, 
and you are all set up. 

> Also, can you change how Info links input to command?  For example, so
> I could set C-p to print-node?

You can't, unless you change the sources and rebuild Info.  (Do you really 
need to print the nodes so frequently?)

> And finally, could someone direct me to the Info source?

Get v2gnu/txi390s.zip from the same place you got the binary distribution.