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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:17:14 -0500 (GMT-0500)
From: chris johanesen <johanese AT nerc1 DOT nerc DOT com>
To: DJGPP Mailing list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Problem with Info

On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I'm a new DJGPP user, I installed DJGPP for only two days.
> > When I typed 'info -f libgplus.inf', Info telled me that
> > 'Cannot not find the node "Top".'
> 
>          Assuming the above checks OK, and all the necessary info files
>          are indeed installed in those directories (did you remember to
>          give that -d switch to PKUNZIP?), it might be that some of the
>          files were edited with a DOS-based editor, which converted the
>          Newline characters to the CR/LF pairs.  The DOS port of Info
>          doesn't like this, because this invalidates the tag tables
>          included with the files, which Info uses to quickly find the
>          various nodes.
> 
>          To work around this, run DTOU.EXE on the offending files, it will
>          strip the extra CR characters to make Info happy.  DTOU is in
>          your bin/ subdirectory of the main DJGPP directory.
> 

Actually, i had the same problem, and after inspecting the files in the 
archive libgplus.zip, it seems that the file LIBGPLUS.INF is in DOS 
(CR/LF) format. In other words running DTOU.EXE on the file will fix the 
problem. I can't figure how more people didn't run into this 
problem, and i just wanted to direct someone towards the problem. I ftp'd 
my archives from oak.oaklan.edu if it helps. 

-chris johanesen (johanese AT nerc1 DOT nerc DOT com)

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