Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:24:51 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Can you combine DOC- subdirectories In-Reply-To: <3ab3c07c.3206.0@surfeu.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mr. Veli Suorsa wrote: > >> Maybe you should make this "standard directory" ;-) > > > >Maybe. > > Thanks in advance. > It is just a waste of time to search documentation from un-standard > directories. Why do you need to search? The docs directories hold printed versions of the manuals. You are supposed to print them, and then get rid of those monstrously large files. > >> Directory of C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS > >> BASH-2 04 > >> FILUTIL3 16 > >> GCC-2 952 > >> - Why g77 / f77 documentation is here? > > > >Because g77 is part of the GCC package. > > Should directory's name be C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS\G77 ? No, I don't think so. > >What's not user-friendly about Info? > > So many stars-lines from start page and not even alphapetical order! They are in the logical order: the Info system itself first (so that you could use Info), then the compiler, the library, and the basic development tools such as the debugger, then the utilities. > You should use menus in info! The stand-alone Info reader was designed to run on bare-bones text terminal without a mouse. If you want a more graphical Info reader, get one of those mentioned in section 5.1 of the DJGPP FAQ list. > >> and a direct port to Rhide (if possible). > > > >RHIDE already has an internal Info reader. > > Lets take an example: > 1) I write a C program in Rhide. > 2) I want to use intent program while writing. What F-key? > 3) And read intent's instructions (was it really right, e.g. intent -mh -i1 > done.c)? What F-key? I don't use RHIDE, so I wouldn't know. The stand-alone Info reader has the --apropos option, so "info --apropos indent" should give you what you want. For finding the instruction to run a utility, use the option --usage, like in "info --usage indent". I suggest to read the section in the file README.1ST called "Reading the documentation, or A Crash Course in Info". It describes some of the more efficient facilities of the Info reader. > I can read C library (libc reference) from Rhide, but where is Fortran (and > pascal and other utilities) library? They probably don't exist. You get the documentation which comes with the original GNU packages; whatever they supply, you have on your machine. If they didn't supply documentation for some library, it isn't available. > >> P.S. Is it possible to make with Gnu utilities from > >> a .html file a readable .txt file and vice versa? > > > >You should be able to find such programs > > Please, tell me a good program (so many possible). I don't know any particular program, perhaps someone else here does. You could also search the SimTel.NET repository.