From: Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net>
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Subject: Re: INFO usage in README.1ST
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:55:36 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se> donated an addition to the README.1ST
> file that describes some basic usage of the INFO browser.  The relevant
> part of the file is reproduced below.
>
> I would like to ask people who have comments about this addition to
> please post them herel.  In particular, please state your opinions
> whether the text gives enough information to read the docs and look up
> a specific subject there, and whether the explanations are clear.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Reading the documentation, or A Crash Course in Info
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> The following is not supposed to be a complete guide to using Info,
> just a starting point, so you could move around the docs and search it
> for whatever you are looking for.
>
> To invoke Info to read a manual, type "info" followed by the manual
> name.  For example:
>
>   - type "info libc" to read the C library docs;

Here's where you lose me. That's where I got lost in the faq too.

from the faq :


            1) Use the stand-alone Info reader.
               Get the file txiXXXbn.zip, which includes INFO.EXE, and
               txiXXXdc.zip, which includes docs for INFO.EXE.  Unzip them
               and run "info".  It will bring up a (hopefully)
               self-explanatory online help system.  Confused?  Press
               ``?'' to see the list of all Info commands.  Still
               confused?  Press ``h'' to have Info take you on a guided
               tour through its commands.


I'm running windows 98

I have \txi312b\bin\info.exe along tith the other files in txi312b.

When I hit info.exe  I get a big black box with a tool bar titled "MSDOS
Finished-info".
There is a scroll down menu which says "auto"
and in the black area it says "info:dir: nosuch file or directory (ENOENT)"
It won't allw me to type anything in and if I press "?" it says the program
is terminated.

I guess this is some kind of error message from an ms-dos program, but I have
no idea what its trying to tell me.

Can anyone help me get this info program running ?