Message-Id: <199711030544.SAA04894@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> Subject: Re: Some comments and questions To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:44:42 +1300 (NZDT) From: "Kris Heidenstrom" Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 2, 97 02:56:45 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Thank you for this comprehensive and accurate report! Using it, it > took me about 10 seconds to find out the reason for this misbehavior. [...] > It's not hanging, it's waiting for exactly 15 seconds. Here's why. [detailed explanation snipped] Well, that explains everything! Thanks for giving such a thorough explanation. > This should be fixed when the next version of Texinfo is ported to > DJGPP. There should be no futile waiting on MS-DOS, or at least there > should be a message to the effect that it's waiting. Right. It's odd that it ran okay under DR-DOS but not under MS-DOS 6.2. Perhaps DR-DOS's command interpreter writes a newline to stdout as well as issuing the error message to stderr. I have one more silly question though: > Otherwise, it assumes that the shell is of the Unix-style variety, and > that it can grok forward slashes, and calls it in a way that Unix What does 'grok' mean? Is it a neologism like 'kludge'? Thanks again Kris -- Kris Heidenstrom kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz Wellington, New Zealand Electronic designer and programmer "Good sense is the most valuable good on the market"