X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:45:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: DJGPP Gnu Info in a console window under Windows From: rugxulo AT gmail DOT com Cc: dennis DOT mccunney AT gmail DOT com Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:45:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bytes: 2442 Lines: 24 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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 Hi, On Friday, September 7, 2012 3:27:47 PM UTC-5, DMcCunney wrote: > I have an old (circa 2002) notebook I use as a test platform. It > multi-boots a couple of flavors of Linux, Win2K SP4 (Win2K runs > acceptably, WinXP does not.) and FreeDOS, and I got the DJGPP stuff with > FreeDOS. When you were recently mentioning old *nixes on old PCs, e.g. MKS in DOS, on the freedos-user mailing list, I forgot to mention DJGPP. Though no surprise you've heard of it. ;-) > I have an assortment of info files on the machine, and looked around for > an info viewer I could use under Windows. There's a Gnuwin32 port of > info, but it has problems Both GNU Emacs and JED both have Win32 ports and can read Info files (and jump around properly between nodes, etc). http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ http://www.jedsoft.org/cygwin/ > The DJGPP port of info runs in a console window under Win2K, but with a > quirk. I prefer an 90x50 console window, but DJGPP sets an 80x40 screen Yeah, I think the NTVDM always forces more normal sizes for various reasons (compatibility?). As for native DOS, I don't know what would happen, it might be hardcoded (you could check, but ...). Presumably it can be tweaked, but I'm not sure offhand. There I typically run 80x43 these days.