From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: (newbie) Texinfo/DJGPP/gzip questions
Date: 23 Feb 2000 09:48:57 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Trancelucid <trancelucid AT videotron DOT ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 	I recently started to use DJGPP, along with GNU software, and so have a
> few GNUbie questions...

> How does Texinfo knows to load djgppfaq.info when it is given "faq" as
> argument (ie: "info faq <enter>") ? As far as I can see, this seems
> hard-coded.. plz confirm.

No, it isn't hard-coded. There's a central menu of .info files. To see
it, just call "info" without any further arguments. Arguments on the
to the info command are treated as (abbreviated) names of menu
entries, like in the 'm' command of info. That's how you can reach the
documentation of printf via "info libc alpha printf".

There's an entry "FAQ" in there that leads to djgppfaq.info. If you
really want to, you can edit this central menu. It's the file
"info/dir" in your DJGPP tree.

> What's the difference between gpp.exe and gxx.exe? In the FAQ, both are
> referred as a port of g++, but they're not the same size.

gxx.exe was the name of the program, originally, and it was part of
djdev, not the gpp package. Later on, after some functionality had
been added, the name was changed to 'gpp.exe'.  If you have gpp,exe,
use it. Otherwise stick with gxx.exe.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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