From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: A question (and suggestion) about RHIDE Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 07:57:25 -0500 Organization: Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu Lines: 28 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <33294B35.381D@cornell.edu> References: <01bc2e7b$b3786c00$3714c00a AT graga-ii> <33268CF1 DOT 2170 AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de> <5gaq88$d5f AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0053.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Derbyshire wrote: > > 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. > ok, dos wraps lines longer than 80 characters automatically, that's the reason you see those staggered lines. look at an info file by using an editor, say 'edit make.i5'. there really isn't too much to it. -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ *******************************************************************