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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:20:31 GMT
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I have just installed DJGPP.  The system is W98, with 64 M, on a
486/80.  The command processor is 4dos 6.02.

1.  Duplicate file.  which to keep.

bnu2112b.zip and gpp2953.zip both installed a cxxfilt.exe.  The
bnu one is dated later than the gpp one, and is considerably
smaller (110k vs 149k).

Incidently, the manifest file records both as being installed in
djgpp\bin\cxxfilt.exe, although this was detected by unzip, and I
renamed the gpp version (which extracted it to
djgpp\cxxfilt1.exe).

2.  The info system - can't cancel the ? operator

When I use the ? to access help on the info system proper, it
splits the screen. C-x O allows me to flip between halves, but I
can find no way of unsplitting the screen other than starting over
(q and rerun).

3.  The info system - how to print?

The help claims that M-x print-info should print out a node.  When
executed the printer coughs (apparently warming up the laser), but
nothing comes out.  I assumed that the M refers to an ESC
keypress, from long ago encounters with EMACS.

The default printer is set to be fineprint (www.fineprint.com).  I
have never attempted to use it under a dosbox before.  This made
it feasible to print the faq as a set of booklets.

4.  Is there an ISO Pascal compiler for this (Not Turbo)?

5.  I assume that there is no necessity for the NOFILETAILS
modification required about 3 years ago.

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Incidentally, I added a 'zipsused' directory under djgpp, and
created the following batch file djgpp\install.bat (used with
4dos, not sure if it works under COMMAND)

@echo off
echo Installing zipped packages present
echo.
for %ff in (*.zip) do unzip %ff
echo.
echo Moving all zip files to .\zipsused directory
move *.zip .\zipsused\
echo DONE

so that I automatically have a record of what was installed, and
can repeat it.

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