Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:30:02 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: rhayner AT complink DOT net cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: problems reading djgpp docs. In-Reply-To: <199712300615.BAA02627@delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 rhayner AT complink DOT net wrote: > I am looking for a way to convert the files that come with djgpp > that are read with info into standard ascii textfiles. I am totally > blind, and the info program doesn't work well at all with my speech > output. Did you try using the info.exe program with the -b or --speech-friendly switch? If not, please do: it should make info.exe compatible with your speech synthesizer. Here's an excerpt from the readme.djg file in the Texinfo distribution: * Info recognizes a new DOS-specific command-line option `-b' or `--speech-friendly'. This option causes Info to use DOS I/O functions (`printf', `puts', etc.) instead of direct screen writes, which is required to enable speech synthesizer software (used by visually-impaired people) to grab the output. When this option is given, the screen colors defined by the `INFO_COLORS' environment variable will be disabled, because stdio functions don't support color text. This improvement was suggested and implemented by Hans-Bernhard Broeker .