Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:21:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ned Ulbricht <nedu AT ee DOT washington DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: em1934*.zip - emacs info on emacs
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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Ned Ulbricht wrote:

> Yesterday, I downloaded the Simtel DJGPP archive distribution of GNU 
> Emacs MS-DOS binaries (files: em1934b.zip and em1934r?.zip).

Please tell what are the sizes are date/time stamps of the .zip files 
that you downloaded.  There was a bug in older binary distribution that 
would cause problems like what you describe, but it is corrected in the 
latest distribution (dated October 27 or later).

> ! ! ! ! ! MY GUESS
> is that the immediate cause of my problem is that (as I've verified 
> with other tools) the emacs/info/emacs file and all the 
> emacs/info/emacs-?? files contain CR/LF sequences (0x0a 0x0d).  In 
> contrast, all of the other djgpp/info/* and emacs/info/* files 
> contain only LFs.

This is incorrect.  The DJGPP port of Emacs doesn't care about the CR/LF 
pair, because the CR characters are stripped when the Info file is read.  
It is also untrue that all of the files in the djgpp/info directory are 
Unix-style, at least not on my system, and I can read all the Info files 
in both Emacs and the stand-alone info.exe.

If you want to be sure whether this is the problem, run dtou.exe on the 
file that has DOS-style lines, and see if that helps.  My guess is it 
won't.

> For instance, is there a simple setting to let emacs info know to 
> recognize the dos end-of-line convention in an info file?

Emacs does that automagically.