Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/23/14:26:12
> How does Texinfo knows to load djgppfaq.info when it is given "faq" as
> argument (ie: "info faq <enter>") ? As far as I can see, this seems
> hard-coded.. plz confirm.
No, it's not hard-coded. If it were, Info could not have found the
file kb.info when you type "info knowledge", or the file gdbint.info
when you type "info gdb-internals".
The secret is that the file info/DIR has entries like this:
* Faq: (djgppfaq).
The string inside the parentheses tells Info what file to look for,
possibly with one of the known extensions (.info, .inf, etc.).
This is all documented in the Texinfo manuals, btw.
> What's the difference between gpp.exe and gxx.exe? In the FAQ, both are
> referred as a port of g++, but they're not the same size.
They are two different ways of achieving the same goal: linking C++
programs without having to mention C++ libraries on the command
line. gpp is a port of g++, while gxx was written for DJGPP and comes
with djdevNNN.zip. The version of gxx from djdev203.zip might be less
sensitive to LFN-related snafus.
> What's the difference between gzp124b.zip (gzip 1.2.4) and gzp124ab
> (gzip 1.2.4+alpha) ?
Lots of DJGPP-specific improvements and a few general ones. For the
full story, see the files NEWS and msdos/README.djgpp in the
distribution. In general, those files is the place where you should
look for answers to such questions.
> And finally, is there any way to disable beeps in GNU apps w/o having to
> rebuild? (eg: pressing the left arrow on an empty line in bash, holding
> the up arrow in emacs)
For Emacs: "M-x set-variable RET visible-bell RET t RET" (the file
_emacs.xmpl in the distribution shows, among lots of other useful
things, how to make this setting permanent).
For Bash: put the following on your _bashrc file:
set bell-style visible
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