Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/26/05:23:27
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Ralph Proctor wrote:
> Has anybody ever had to use "--force" to get a good info file?
No, and you shouldn't have to.
> Trying to convert a particular .tex file to an info file with
> "makeinfo calc.tex" did not work. It went through the long process of
> converting every segment with
> no error messages, but at the end there was the blinking cursor forever--I
> had to reboot.
If you didn't try the latest makeinfo.exe from v2gnu/txi312b.zip
(makeinfo.exe should be dated 26 June 1998), please try it. If you
already have that version installed, please tell which version of calc
did you try that with, and I will try to look into it.
> This is the first time I have tried the "--force" extension. It
> looks like a valuable trick.
Using an irrelevant option to hide a possible bug isn't *my* idea of a
valuable trick, sorry.
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