From: "Graeme Fenwick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Documentation on Non-ANSI features, and Allegro problem! Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:36:23 -0000 Lines: 47 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp47-11.dial.nildram.co.uk Message-ID: <369544f2.0@mercury.nildram.co.uk> X-Trace: 7 Jan 1999 23:36:18 GMT, ppp47-11.dial.nildram.co.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ... >Asking help for problems with using Info is NOT off-topic on the DJGPP >forum. >> Trouble >> is, it seemed to install nicely when I set up DJGPP after getting the files >> off the web site, but I can't get it to read in any other .inf >> files. >What does that mean, exactly? How did you try to to invoke Info, and >what happened when you did? Info on its own is fine. I don't want to go too much into it, as I found what I was looking for whilst running info. However, the main problem related to this- you mentioned the function name, I thought, "Where can I find information on this function?". So I used W95's find facility to find files (in the DJGPP directories) containing the function name. The one that turned up was libc.inf (or whatever the name was), and then I realised I didn't know how to load it into Info. Later on, by browsing the tree, I discovered it had already been set up with this file, and got the information I required. However, I still want to go back and see if Info comes with more information as to how the tree is set up and so on (I get the impression I haven't understood the program's design entirely yet). As I already know some of it, I'd rather go back and have another look at the Info files on Info (!) first. >> It doesn't even have a /? screen because it's a ******* Unix port. >Of course, it does: just type "info --help" and you will see it. I didn't mean it didn't have a help screen, just that the MSDOS style /? didn't apply here as it was a Unix port. Believe it or not, some of us non-Unixers wouldn't know about that --help switch thing. I'll have to give that Unix-on-a-floppy thing a try (Tomsrtbt- not a catchy name, but a nice idea). ============================================ Graeme Fenwick | gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk "Please remove BYESPAM filter when replying by mail" -- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet.