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- # readme. - GNUish MS-DOS info -*-Text-*-
- # Copyright (C) 1990 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- # Thorsten Ohl <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet>
-
-
- This is the GNU stand-alone info program for MS-DOS. It allows you to
- read GNU Emacs info files (the online form of the documentation for the
- GNU operating system) without GNU Emacs.
-
- And this is the GNU stand-alone makeinfo program for MS-DOS. It allows
- you to format texinfo files as info files without GNU Emacs.
-
-
- RELEASE NOTES:
-
- Brian Fox (the original author, he's got to get all the credits) has no
- objections to distributing this port of the pre-release version to MS-DOS
- users. If you really need to know where I started from: pretend that
- you're cpp and that you don't have "MSDOS" predefined.
-
- Please don't blame Brian for the crazy *.d and *.e files. They are
- caused by my Freemacs addiction... You can savely `cat' the files, if
- you're using an editor for >64k files.
-
-
- USAGE NOTES:
-
- Note that info searches for files in $INFOPATH, which is a semicolon
- separated list of directories. (The executable searches by default in the
- current directory and in "c:/emacs/info", but that might not be
- appropriate for your system.)
-
- The current version of makeinfo is restricted to files that fit into
- memory in one piece. This means for instance that make.texinfo can be
- processed, while you will have to get gawk.info from someone with a
- "real computer" :-).
-
-
- HACKING:
-
- To recompile, you'll also need the gnulib (for details see readme.gmd).
-
- Please note that I'm not particularly proud of the present version of
- the terminal driver. I would appreciate contributions of smarter code
- which detects the screen dimensions and related informations even on non-VGA
- cards.
-
- pc_term.c was written with Microsoft C 6.0 and should also compile with
- MSC 5.1, provided you don't define USE_ASSEMBLER. I'm convinced that the
- macros can easily be adapted for Turbo C. Again I would appreciate
- contributions.
-
- Thanks to Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> and Richard
- Reiner <rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca> for finding the bugs in the pre-release
- (of the port of the pre-release ...).
-
-
- Enjoy it.
- -Thorsten
-