Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:28:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
Reply-To: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: ^Magico^ <bfe2333 AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Int2TeX v1.00 was released
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, ^Magico^ wrote:
> 
> > It's very strange. In fact makeinfo reports the "@" error, something
> > that doesn't happens with makeinfo previous version. 
> 
> If you can isolate the problem to a short file that triggers an error
> message with 1.68 but not with 1.67, please send me that short file
> and I will look into this problem.
> 

Attached, you will find a short file that triggers an error with 1.68 but
not with 1.67

> > But the thing that I really found as a big problem, was the convertion
> > time, it's strange but now makeinfo 1.68 takes 1 hour to convert a
> > file with 11000 nodes (about 7MB), file that is converted in about 20
> > minutes with makeinfo 1.67 using the same command line arguments.
> 
> This doesn't give enough detail to investigate.
> 
> One possible problem might be that your system has too few free memory
> (run go32-v2 and report the results), and the new makeinfo uses more
> memory, so it begins paging to disk.
> 
For ^Magico^'s PC I don't know, but for mine at work which takes
approximatively the same (very long) time with 1.68, here are the results:

DPMI memory available: 13979 Kb
DPMI swap space available: 7725 KB


> > Another thing it's the fact that makeinfo 1.68 crashs under Win95.
> 
> Please redirect stderr to a file and post the full traceback here.
> 
Doesn't apply to me :)


Hope this helps.
If you need more info, don't hesitate.
Olivier.

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