Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/10/06:18:48
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Graeme Fenwick wrote:
> However, I still want to go
> back and see if Info comes with more information as to how the tree is set
> up and so on (I get the impression I haven't understood the program's design
> entirely yet). As I already know some of it, I'd rather go back and have
> another look at the Info files on Info (!) first.
You will need to read the manual of the stand-alone Info program first
(from the DOS prompt, type "info 'info program'", the single quotes
around the last two words are important). And then you will have to
download the Texinfo sources, v2gnu/txi312s.zip, and read them.
AFAIK, there's no other place where the design of Info is described.
You can also ask questions here.
In general, there's no ``tree'' of Info files. Rather, there's a list
of directories, much like PATH, where it looks for any file you ask
for, either explicitly or implicitly.
> Believe it or not, some of us non-Unixers wouldn't know about that --help
> switch thing.
--help isn't standard on Unix either. It's a feature of the programs
written by the GNU project.
The `strings' utility comes in handy in these cases: from the DOS
prompt, type "strings info.exe | more", then scroll through all that,
and you will see the help screen, including the --help switch.
After a while, you just get used to the GNU-standard --help feature.
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