From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gzipped info files in Emacs 20.5
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 23:39:18 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Cesar Rabak wrote:
> 
> > Supposing you already have all info files gzipped:
> >
> > 1) emacs -q
> > 2) in emacs C-h i (brings Info buffer)
> > 3) m gcc*
> >
> > The following message can be read in the echo line:
> >
> > "No such anchor in tag table or node in tag table or file: Top"
> 
> You didn't say, but I'm guessing this was on Windows, right?  It does
> work for me on plain DOS.

Yes... I forgot to give full environmental details, sorry. But you
guessed right is on a Win98 SE machine (the same friend's machine we're
still debugging an app with YAMD ;-(

> 
> This is a bug: Emacs would not consider long file names such as
> gcc.info-1.gz as possible with the DJGPP port, even on Windows 9X.  It
> would always assume that long file names are not available and look for
> the short versions of these file names, such as gcc.i1z etc.

I see. Thanks for chasing this insect to us Eli!

> 
> The patch below should fix this.  Let me know if they work for you.
> (Don't forget to byte-compile info.el once you apply the patch.)

Will apply asap!

Thanks.

Cesar