From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: A question (and suggestion) about RHIDE
Date: 14 Mar 1997 06:12:24 GMT
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Robert Hoehne (Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de) writes:
> Galiacy Yannick wrote:
>> 
>> Is it a bug or not : the point of my Num Pad is working as del on the
>> editor window only (as far as i can tell), I'm using a french keyboard.
> 
> This is either a problem of your keyboard driver or have you
> can try to use the french keyboard configuration file for RHIDE
> to see it helps you:
> 
> rhide -k fr.txt ...
> 
> But I have not tested it and cannot say exactly if it will
> help you.
> 
>> Is there a way to edit within RHIDE the info file of a program 'or in my
>> case the Allegro's one)?
> 
> No!! RHIDE uses an info VIEWER.

I think he was thinking of being able to either annotate info files with
things he feels are omissions, or to create his own documentation also.
In fact, this is a desirable feature. I had occasion to inspect an info
file as raw text. Although it is ASCII, it is in a rather incomprehensible
format with strange control characters and all manner of peculiar line
indentations, such as lines staggered in diagonal lines and suchlike.
Since I can't conceive of anyone with an IQ short of Einstein's managing
to write such a file in raw format (it seems in the same league as writing
a 3-D Starfox like game *in assembly*) there must of necessity be editors
for the making of these files laying about. Since it is some sort of unixy
thing, the sources are llikely also laying about. Obtaining the sources 
quite likely involves little beyond a net search and a download, whereupon
they might be (assuming ANSI compliance or close to it) recompiled for DOS
using DJGPP.

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