From: jerry AT jvdsys DOT textlitho DOT nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Date: Tue Nov 22, 1994 22:06:35 GMT
Subject: Install problems solved
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


Hi,

When I asked:

> Why can't info read the iostream.inf documentation ? It says "Cannot
> find node Top" although I can find no difference with the other files on

<Eli Zaretskii> and <Hans-Bernhard> among others told me:

> Did you save this file with any DOS-based program, like editor?  The
> version of Info which comes with DJGPP insists on having the lines
> of the info files to end with anly a Line-Feed (LF), it barfs if
> you have the usual DOS CR/LF pair.

Actually, I didn't try to edit it. But doing a dtou on all info files
cured the problem. Misleading was the fact that the info package of oemacs
didn't seem to care about it.

Also, when I asked:

> When trying to compile the FSDB091A package -which compiled fine with
> 1.11m5- the following happened:
> gcc -I.. -I. -I- -O2 -g -Wformat -Wunused -DFULLSCR -c fullscr.c
> c:/TEMP/cca00076: Assembler message:
> c:/TEMP/cca00076:476:Error: Rest of the line ignored. First ignored 
> character is '*'.

<Morten Welinder>, <Duncan Sands>, <Long Doan>, <Paul Cheng> and
<Eli Zaretskii> among others told me:

> Just remove the comments in the assembler stuff in fullscr.c
> The compiler is not to blame for literal assembler stuff.

Which proved to be correct. Actually I feel this is the proper thing
to do. If only they hadn't changed it when I wasn't looking :-)
Now I only have to figure out why SFDB causes an exception when run...

Salutem, Jerry...

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