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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:48:49 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199802260148.RAA14165@adit.ap.net>
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To: thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Differences between DJGPP and Cygnus-Win32

At 08:36  2/24/1998 -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
>John M. Aldrich wrote:
>> Use the 's' key to search the FAQ for any term.  For example, the search
>> term "error messages" hits chapter 6.10 on the third try.  The term
>> "redirect" hits it on the first try.  The term "stderr" hits it on the
>> first try.  This is how I search the FAQ to look up answers to user
>> questions; it saves me the trouble of memorizing all the topic numbers.
>> :-)
>>
>
>Hmm....the 's' key?  In what program?  Netscape's search isn't done with
the 's'
>key, and besides, I don't see anyway to do a search through all the topics.
But
>obviously you're not talking about the HTML version stored on  Delorie's
site.  So
>what file/app are you talking about?
He's referring to the Info version of the FAQ. Info is a hypertext format
used by most GNU packages. Read FAQ section 5.1 (which hopefully you can do
without searching :) to find out how to get the Info reader. Within it, the
`s' key does indeed do a search.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



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