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Re: how to setup info?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: how to setup info?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:57:34 +0200 (IST)

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> > "info.exe" seems to hint that you use a DOS or Windows port of
> > Texinfo.  If so, the following command, if typed at your shell's
> > command prompt, should do the trick:
> > 
> >   for %f in (*.info *.info.gz) do install-info %f
> 
> Not really, i'm using it on cygwin, with bash and lot of nice unix 
> tools.

You can still use the command above, by invoking an inferior Windows 
shell, like this:

  bash$ command.com /c "for %f in (*.info *.info.gz) do install-info %f"

> Before this, i gunzippd all the zipped files, because i tried to read 
> one gzipped, but info didn't open it, maybe the port here is buggy?

install-info certainly supports compressed Info files.  It works for me 
in the DJGPP port.



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