From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Problems with DJGPP V2.01 - atof() function Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 19:07:19 -0800 Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32A78DE7.5F99@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp211.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eli Zaretskii DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Does, too! Want to see that it does? Fire up Info, then type this: > > Alt-x index-apropos RET cwsdpmi RET > > Info will run for a while, and then display a menu of all the index > entries in *all* the Info files installed on your system which mention > cwsdpmi. Still think that Info is inferior to Windows Help? Whoa... that's cool! Sure eats up memory though - when I Alt-TABbed back to Windoze after running the above-mentioned search it took almost a minute to page Netscape back in. :) Okay... gotta find something else... oh yeah, Windoze help lets you use the mouse! So there! Oh wait; there's Emacs. The list of Losedows advantages is getting smaller and smaller. > Info also supports completion on menu items and cross-references. Since > the index is just a huge menu, you can have it auto-complete after typing > some characters and pressing TAB. For instance, if you type the > following: > m gcc TAB > > You will see all the index entries which begin with `gcc'. I knew that, but hadn't used it much. > Once again: please use the FAQ indices more, and please tell me about > your experiences and anything that needs to be made better about the > indices. This is an excellent idea, especially for newcomers. The FAQ can't be improved unless everybody pitches in! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------