Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 13:46:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From: David Svensson <david AT df DOT lth DOT se>
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping a new user of DJGPP 
To: Howard <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
Cc: kaikow AT standards DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


On Fri, 12 Aug 1994, Howard wrote:

> David Svensson <david AT df DOT lth DOT se> writes:
> : This is indeed a problem with the environment variables. info searches 
> : the directories mentioned in the INFOPATH variable for a specified file. 
> : The default for INFOPATH is 
> : %yourdjgppdir%/docs;%yourdjgppdir%/docs/djgpp. To let info find the info. 
> : file you either have to move it to a directory in the INFOPATH variable 
> : or add docs/texinfo to the variable.
       ^^^

> That does not work as the INFO (or INFO.INF) file is not in
> \djgpp\docs\djgpp and when I define INFOPATH to point to the directory in
> which the INFO (and INFO.INF) files live, I get a "can't find info.exe"
> message when running info, so INFOPATH is conflicting with PATH, which does
> have the correct directory for info.exe.

What I believe you get is a "info.exe: dir: file not found" which means
info can't find the root document, "dir". What you must do is add
"\djgpp\docs\texinfo" to your current INFOPATH. Here is mine:
   INFOPATH=p:\docs;p:\docs\djgpp;p:\docs\texinfo

INFOPATH determines where info searches for the documents whereas PATH 
determins where command.com searches for the executables. Both can 
contain multiple directories separated by a semicolon.

I hope I got this right.

David