X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: DMcCunney Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP Gnu Info in a console window under Windows Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:45:57 -0400 Organization: Montage Associates Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 01:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="25d3d193cae8be6025fc3b587125dba6"; logging-data="23658"; mail-complaints-to="abuse AT eternal-september DOT org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+f2YC1RQt889aJSyCLvBUPoMvxKbJuayw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:CWGAJk4aSupmoTL8h8wp9FYB6GA= Bytes: 3436 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 On 09/07/2012 06:45 PM, rugxulo AT gmail DOT com wrote: > 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. ;-) It did come with FreeDOS, though I knew of it before that. >> 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). I have Emacs 24.1 on the machine, and it works in both a GUI session and in a console window. But I don't want to run it just to view info files. I'd prefer a stand-alone viewer. Salavador Tropea's Infview (also distributed with FreeDOS) works, and it's what I use at the moment, but I'd prefer a straight Info port to the TurboVision UI he uses. > http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ > http://www.jedsoft.org/cygwin/ And I'm trying to avoid Cygwin. (I have it elsewhere, and it works, but I'd prefer to do without the POSIX compatibility layer.) >> 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?). It defaults to 80x25, but does not force it. If your DOS app will run at a different size, you can configure a console window run from a shortcut to open in the defined size. > 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. I'd like to know if it can be, without source-crawling. ______ Dennis