Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "John Fletcher" To: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:00:43 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Solution (was RE: Where is info?) Reply-to: J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, help-octave In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Message-Id: > From: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" > To: "'J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk'" > Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: RE: Where is info? (was Re: Installing Octave for Windows 95) > Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:12:37 -0400 > > Sure, but we can only break that cycle if someone contributes back a tarball > or an info executable. In fact there is an info for B20, see the other traffic. > > As a fatter of fact, I am simply running Octave under cygwin _without_ the > info reader. I copied the info files into Emacs info directory and read them > via Emacs. Right. So getting emacs is an alternative. > > I have found a source distribution called texinfo which > seems to have > it. I couldn't find a distribution with just info. > > Correct. That's the GNU source for it. Dunno how hard it is to port info to > cygwin. > > By all means, if you find omissions: let everybody know. Best is to provide > patches, or a freash README.foo or whatever so that the next person doesn't > hit the stumble at the same hurdle. Thanks. I will put something together from my experience of the last few days, now that I have the answers. John -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com