From: "Marp" <marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can't view the syntax help... assistance anyone?
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:35:46 -0500
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<@telia.com> wrote in message news:Y6HO5.4498$QH2 DOT 464135 AT newsb DOT telia DOT net...
> Hello... I already posted here before regarding the problem to no
avail....
>
> When trying to view the syntax help I get the following error:
>
> "Error creating the indices for libc (or nothing found). Remove that file
> from the list?"

If you extract the zip files on winnt with a long file name aware unzip
program, and then try to access those files by their long names using a dos
program, it will fail. The reason is because winnt doesn't provide the
interface for dos programs to access long files. The file that the info
reader is looking for is libc.info which doesn't conform to the 8.3 short
name format, so it gets ashort name alias (like libc~1.inf for example). You
will have to change the file name that the info reader looks for to the
short name alias for libc.info in order to read it.

Hope this helps

Marp