Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/12/22/11:45:12
"Lars O. Hansen" wrote:
>
> > > (as an additional note: the whole "documentation"
> > > structure could be improved.)
> >
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>
> info: didn't download it; I thought rhide would be sufficient
> (but which I don't use because of the quirk that each DOS window
> on my PC seems to get it's own environment setting copy, so set
> from one don't activate in the other, so calling a .bat which
> sets a path and closes after that has no effect at all, also
> rhide seems to always load the last file I worked on
> automatically and I didn't find the option to switch this off;
> I don't like this behaviour!); but from the readme it looks as if
> one has to know the info file one wants to read and that one has
> to learn its keyboard navigation interface. If it needs pure
> keyborad navigation and if it doesn't lay out the whole doc
> structire clearly before me (that is the content it wants to make
> readble), I can't use it. I then stick to gcc -o hello.c and
> don't go into the specifics of the compiler.
You have serious problems with linelength in your message.
Constrain it to well under 80 chars please. 65 is good. You
would be well advised to get rid of that Outhouse newsreader.
Thank heaven info is not rodent driven. It does take some getting
used to, but has a pretty decent introduction and help system
built in. If you simply install it and the documentation the
opening menu can lead anywhere you wish. That menu is the thing
that could use improvement, and somebody has been doing some work
on it. However info is NOT djgpp specific - you will get the same
documentation and interface on many systems.
I am very glad the HTML versions of the various doc files are
monolythic. That allows easy printout in the format and page size
of choice. When viewed as HTML in a browser the linkages are
pretty easy to handle. No need to use the scrollbars, just use
space, and the various paging and arrow keys.
I think you need to learn how to use and control DOS windows.
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