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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:32:27
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: "makeinfo --force"
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At 12:23 PM 7/26/98 +0300, you wrote:

>> Has anybody ever had to use "--force" to get a good info file?

>No, and you shouldn't have to.

>If you didn't try the latest makeinfo.exe from v2gnu/txi312b.zip
>(makeinfo.exe should be dated 26 June 1998), please try it.  If you
>already have that version installed, please tell which version of calc
>did you try that with, and I will try to look into it.

I have txi312b.zip installed. The exe is MAKEINFO.EXE 124,928 06-26-98 9:58p
My Calc is Version 2.02f from CALC-2.GZ

It all works good with EMACS. And now I can read the Calc tutorial in the
upper window while
trying the examples in the lower Calc window. I could not install the Calc
Info until I had done the
--force switch.

The Calc make went through the compile cleanly until it got to the two .tex
files (Info and refcard) and
then gave up so I had to convert the tex files myself. I might add the Info
looks clean all the way
through.

>Using an irrelevant option to hide a possible bug isn't *my* idea of a
>valuable trick, sorry.

Of, course, you are correct. And I have always agreed with this, but that
was my way of trying to get
to the matter as far as I could go.

Anything you can say about Calc and also I can only get Gnuplot in the DOS
version (not EMACS) I
sure would like to hear it. I  would also like to get Gnuplot that works by
way of EMACS. So far no
luck.

Now my "tree" has grown---
	BASH over command.com
	BASH alone
		EMACS
			Calc
				Gnuplot (not yet under Calc)
All this is working well, but I have not yet tried below the EMACS level
with BASH.

Should I worry about the fact that I can only load Calc in EMACS with
"Meta-x calc" and not
with the preferred "Meta-#-c"?

Thanks for everything,

Ralph