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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:28:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Kris Heidenstrom <kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz>
cc: Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Some comments and questions
In-Reply-To: <199710240817.VAA09411@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971024121953.12317C-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Kris Heidenstrom wrote:

> > What scroll-lock does?
> 
> This editor uses the Scroll Lock key to enable/disable the mode where
> it keeps the cursor on the same line, and scrolls the file accordingly
> as I move around.

I don't see anything special in such scrolling (do you really mean to 
tell us that this is the reason why you stick with your editor??)
Emacs has a command to scroll the display without moving the cursor.  I 
have it permanently bound to Ctrl-z and Alt-z (scroll up and down).

But this is quickly becoming another editor war, so let's drop it,
okay?

> >>>> Info reader bug - when I invoke 'info' with a keyword it doesn't know
> >>>> about (e.g. 'info djasm'), it reports 'bad command or filename'
> >>>> (probably reported by command.com) then hangs.
> 
> I've investigated this and found that info works properly if I remove
> my DJGPP environment variable.  In this case, 'info djasm' gives:
> 
>   info.exe: dir: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> 
> I then put the DJGPP environment variable back, and tried commenting out
> the INFOPATH line under [info] in djasm.env, and info worked properly
> then too.  So I tried different settings for the INFOPATH line, for
> example INFOPATH=C:/S/DJGPP/INFO, which is a valid directory, but nothing
> seemed to work - info would always say 'bad command or file name' and
> hang, requiring a reboot.

Are you sure you waited long enough?  Please don't get impatient, let 
Info work for a while.  I think it doesn't hang, it just tries to make a 
lot of guesswork to find your `dir' file.

> So it seems that if there is any INFOPATH setting in the [info] section
> of djgpp.env, info hangs if the subject on the command line is unknown.

No, I think your DJGPP environment variable is set incorrectly.  Please 
post how it is defined, and please revert to the original DJGPP.ENV from 
djdev201.zip, i.e., do NOT edit it.

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