Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 16:57:27 CDT
From: "Jeremy Mathers" <pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To: ag AT muwiinfa DOT geschichte DOT uni-mainz DOT de
Subject: Re: GNU info/makeinfo
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



>> Has anyone ported info and makeinfo to djgpp yet?

>Thorsten Ohl's port of the makeinfo and info programs is available from the
>usual sources. However, this is an older version which has problems formatting
>newer texi files. I once did a port of makeinfo (and also the texindex program
>required to make the indexes related to texi documents, which is not included
>in Thorsten Ohl's package), using djgpp 1.09. The sources were from texinfo
>2.16 (it appears to me that 3.0 is newest), and the port was fairly easy (some
>minor adaptions in the code which reads the texi files and the code which
>creates sub-filenames was necessary, though). The info documents created
>with texinfo 2.16 seemed to work properly with Thorsten Ohl's info program,
>so I didn't bother to port that one to djgpp as well. If anybody is
>interested in this, I could upload diffs and executables to some suitable
>place.

Now that DJGPP can be run under DPMI,this means that it can be run in an
OS/2 DOS box, people may be interested in the texi2inf program.  This is
an OS/2 util that converts TEXI formatted documents into OS/2 .INF
documents.  I have found .INF to be a very pleasing presentation format - it
seems to be a real winner for getting at TEXI documents.

Of course, this has already been done for the TEXI formatted
documentation for the standard GCC ports to OS/2 (GCC/2 and EMX/GCC).