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+===================================================
+
+This directory holds files required for building Texinfo with DJGPP
+tools for MS-DOS and MS-Windows. If you got this file with a binary
+distribution, look for the "Installation" section below.
+
+
+1. Building Texinfo
+ ----------------
+
+ a. To compile Texinfo, you will need the following tools:
+
+ - basic DJGPP development environment: GCC, Binutils and djdev;
+ - a DJGPP port of GNU Make version 3.78 or later;
+ - a DJGPP port of Bash 2.04 or later;
+ - a port of GNU Sed 3.02 or later;
+ - DJGPP ports of Fileutils, Textutils, Sh-utils, Diffutils,
+ Gawk and Grep;
+ - etags (from the Emacs distribution) and mkid (from ID-utils)
+ if you need the TAGS and ID targets of the Makefile's.
+
+ All of the above are available from the DJGPP ftp sites on
+ SimTel.NET mirrors, in the v2gnu directory.
+
+ b. From the root of your DJGPP installation, unzip the source package:
+
+ - if you are unpacking the official GNU source distribution:
+
+ tar -xvzf texinfo-X.YZ.tar.gz
+
+ or
+
+ djtar -x texinfo-X.YZ.tar.gz
+
+ where X.YZ is the version number. (Users of MS-DOS and
+ MS-Windows 3.X, which don't support long file names, will need
+ to rename the archive to something like texi-XYZ.tgz.)
+
+ - if you are unpacking a source distribution from a DJGPP ftp
+ site:
+
+ unzip txiXYZs
+
+ or
+
+ pkunzip -d txiXYZs
+
+ If you build Texinfo on Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or
+ Windows XP, you are advised to use a version of Unzip which
+ supports long filenames, so that the original long filenames of
+ the source files will be preserved. Otherwise, the build
+ procedure will most probably fail.
+
+ Do NOT use an unzip program which supports long file names on
+ Windows NT 4, as DJGPP doesn't support long names there.
+
+ The program unzip32.exe, available from the SimTel.NET site,
+ will deal correctly with long file names on any platform, so it
+ is the recommended way of unzipping txiXYZs.zip archives.
+
+ c. If the source distribution comes with a ready Makefile (this is
+ usually the case with archives downloaded from the DJGPP sites),
+ and all you need is to build Texinfo, you may skip the configure
+ step below and go directly to step e.
+
+ d. To build the official GNU distribution, or to configure Texinfo
+ for any environment but stock DJGPP v2.x, run djgpp\config.bat
+ first, like this:
+
+ SRCDIR\djgpp\config SRCDIR
+
+ Here SRCDIR is the directory where you unpacked the sources. If
+ you are configuring from the source directory itself, you may
+ omit the argument to the config.bat file. If you do supply the
+ argument, you MUST use forward slashes in it, or else the batch
+ file might fail.
+
+ config.bat sets some environment variables, then invokes the
+ configure script. The script will run for a few minutes and
+ create Makefile's in all the directories, and the config.h file.
+
+ e. Run `Make'. This builds the programs and the Info files.
+
+
+
+2. Installation
+ ------------
+
+ a. If you are installing the binary distribution, then go to your
+ main DJGPP directory and unzip the files. For instance, if your
+ DJGPP installation is rooted on C:\DJGPP, then type this (XYZ is
+ the version number):
+
+ cd c:\djgpp
+ unzip txiXYZb
+
+ or, if you prefer `pkunzip':
+
+ pkunzip -d txiXYZb
+
+ b. If you downloaded and built Texinfo from sources, install by
+ invoking Make:
+
+ make install
+
+ This requires a port of Unix-like program `install.exe'. It is
+ available from the DJGPP port of GNU Fileutils on SimTel.NET.
+
+ c. Info needs a file named DIR with the top-level menu of all the
+ Info files installed on your system. If you installed the DJGPP
+ development environment (djdevNN.zip), then you already have
+ this file in the info/ subdirectory of your DJGPP installation.
+ Otherwise, you will need to create it. A minimal DIR file is
+ available in this distribution under the name `dir-example',
+ which you can use as a starting point. Copy it to the directory
+ where you install the Info files from this distribution.
+
+ Even if you already have a DIR file, you should review it to
+ make sure it is consistent with the names of the Info file you
+ are installing. Here's how your Texinfo-related entries in DIR
+ should look like:
+
+ * Info: (info).
+ Documentation browsing system. This topic teaches you about
+ how to use the online help information.
+
+ * Info-Standalone: (info-stnd).
+ This topic helps you use the standalone Info-Program (info.exe)
+
+ * infokey: (info-stnd)Invoking infokey.
+ Compile Info key customizations.
+
+ * Makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking makeinfo.
+ Convert a .texinfo file (.txi) to an info file suitable for the
+ info reader or Emacs, into plain ASCII, into HTML, into XML,
+ or into DocBook.
+
+ * Texinfo: (texinfo).
+ With one source file, make either a printed manual (through TeX)
+ or an on-line manual (through makeinfo). This topic includes
+ a full description of the Texinfo language and related
+ facilities, including Emacs commands to work with Texinfo files.
+
+ * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info.
+ How to update info/dir entries when installing GNU packages.
+
+ * texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi.
+ Printing Texinfo documentation with TeX.
+
+ * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex.
+ Sorting Texinfo index files automatically.
+
+
+ Note that the asterisk `*' should be flushed all the way to the
+ left, it is indented here just to make reading more convenient.
+
+ If your DIR file entries differ from these, I suggest to edit them
+ so they are as shown above. Otherwise, Info might not be able to
+ find some of the files. You HAVE been warned!
+
+ d. Optionally, set up environment variables for Info. These are:
+
+ * INFO_LINES -- screen size for Info.
+ * INFO_COLORS -- screen colors for Info.
+
+ (If you have DJGPP installed on your system, the file djgpp.env
+ which comes with it already has entries for Info, see the [info]
+ section there.)
+
+ INFO_LINES can be one of 25 (the default), 28, 35, 40, 43, or 50
+ (that's if you have a VGA; EGAs only support 25, 35 and 43 lines).
+ I recommend 40 if your monitor is 17" or larger, and at least 28
+ lines for smaller monitors (I work with 40 lines even on 14"
+ monitors).
+
+ INFO_COLORS should have the following syntax:
+
+ set INFO_COLORS=XX.YY
+
+ where XX is the text attribute for text displayed in the text
+ windows and the echo area, and YY is the text attribute for the
+ modeline (aka the status line). Each attribute is a numeric
+ value of a byte which describes the desired combination of
+ foreground and background colors. The individual bits in the
+ attribute byte are defined as follows:
+
+ bBBBFFFF
+
+ where `b' is the blink bit, `BBB' are the 3 bits for background
+ color and `FFFF' are the 4 bits for the foreground color. This is
+ the usual PC text attribute byte structure, and is further explained
+ in any standard reference on text-mode programming for the PC.
+
+ My favorite setting for INFO_COLORS is `0x1e.0x31'. This makes
+ Info use yellow foreground on blue background for the text and
+ blue foreground on cyan background for the modelines.
+
+ After you've played with these variables and have chosen the values
+ you like, it's a good idea to put them on the DJGPP.ENV file, in the
+ [info] section.
+
+ e. Beginning with version 3.6, GNU Info can read Unix man pages. If
+ you have a `man' clone on your system and would like to be able to
+ read man pages with Info, read the chapter ``Reading Man Pages''
+ below. One such clone is available as v2apps/manXYb.zip from
+ the DJGPP sites (XY is the version number).
+
+ f. This port supports compressed Info files, like what Info under Unix
+ gives you. For this to work, you will need to install a DOS port of
+ GNU `Gzip' package and to observe certain rules of file naming, so
+ that Info will find the compressed files working around the DOS 8.3
+ filename restriction. The chapter ``Compressed Info Files'' below
+ explains the details of this.
+
+ g. If you need to use the `print-node' command, read the chapter
+ ``Printing Nodes'' below.
+
+ h. That's it! You are now ready to use Info, Makeinfo, and Texindex.
+ To learn about them, type `Info' and press [Enter]. You will be
+ presented with the top-level menu of GNU/DJGPP hypertext
+ documentation. If you are unfamiliar with Info, press `?' to see
+ the available commands. Pressing `h' will cause Info to take you on
+ a guided tour through its features (recommended for first-time
+ users).
+
+ i. If you are used to Info ports of versions before 3.6, you should
+ know that the command bindings to PC-specific keys has changed: the
+ numeric keypad keys invoke the same commands as their extended
+ namesakes. That is, e.g., the key `PgUp' on the numeric keypad
+ invokes the same command as the grey `PgUp' key on the extended
+ keypad. This was done at DJ's request, because laptop machines
+ don't have extended keys. Commands to move between nodes
+ (previously bound to numeric keypad) are now bound to Ctrl-
+ varieties of numeric keypad keys (e.g., `next-node' is on
+ `Ctrl-PgDn', `prev-node' is on `Ctrl-PgUp', etc.). You can use
+ the `Alt-x describe-key' command to see which command is invoked
+ by a particular key.
+
+ j. There are several MSDOS-specific changes in Texinfo, relative to
+ previous Texinfo ports (for other changes, see the file NEWS):
+
+ * Full support for both forward and backslashes in all file
+ names. Previously, Info was sensitive to the style of
+ slashes in directories mentioned in the INFOPATH environment
+ variable.
+
+ * The default operation of the `print-node' command has been
+ changed so that it automatically prints to the local printer
+ device connected to the PRN port. (If your printer is
+ connected to another port, set the INFO_PRINT_COMMAND
+ environment variable like this:
+
+ set INFO_PRINT_COMMAND=>LPT2
+
+ In other words, if the value of INFO_PRINT_COMMAND begins
+ wih a `>' character, Info will write to the file or device
+ whose name follows the `>' character. (Don't leave any
+ blanks between `>' and the device name!).
+
+ Note that some old versions of stock DOS shell won't let you
+ use the `>' character in environment variables set from the
+ DOS prompt or batch files, but you can set it in the [info]
+ section of your DJGPP.ENV file.
+
+ * The `set-screen-height' command now actually changes the
+ screen dimensions from within Info if you specify one of the
+ sizes supported by your video hardware.
+
+ * If you don't have a `man' clone installed, and you invoke
+ Info with a name of a document which Info cannot find, it
+ will no longer wait for 15 seconds.
+
+ * Several bugs in handling of man pages were corrected.
+
+ * Info opens the dribble and input files in BINARY mode. This
+ allows to record keystrokes and restore them in another Info
+ session, thus using dribble files as a startup or init file
+ which changes default behavior, binds keys, etc.
+
+ * Info recognizes a new DOS-specific command-line option `-b'
+ or `--speech-friendly'. This option causes Info to use DOS
+ I/O functions (`printf', `puts', etc.) instead of direct
+ screen writes, which is required to enable speech
+ synthesizer software (used by visually-impaired people) to
+ grab the output. When this option is given, the screen
+ colors defined by the `INFO_COLORS' environment variable and
+ the visible-bell feature will be disabled, because stdio
+ functions don't support neither color text nor inverting
+ screen colors. This improvement was suggested and
+ originally implemented by Hans-Bernhard Broeker
+ <Broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>.
+
+ * Makeinfo now generates full .info-NN filenames when long
+ filenames are supported (e.g. on Win9x) and short .iNN
+ filenames otherwise. When the Texinfo source or the
+ command-line parameter -o specify an output file with no
+ extension (like `texinfo'), and long filenames aren't
+ supported, Makeinfo will make sure the generated names will
+ be unique (it will create e.g. `texinf-1', `texin-10' etc.).
+
+ * The texi2dvi script is now fully compatible with
+ MS-DOS/MS-Windows and with the DJGPP port of TeX.
+
+
+3. Reading Man Pages
+ -----------------
+
+ Yes, Info can now read man pages! This port supports that feature,
+ but for it to work, you will have to make sure your `man' clone is
+ set up correctly:
+
+ a. You should have an executable file named `man.exe', `man.com'
+ etc. somewhere on your PATH.
+
+ b. When invoked with redirected stdout, that executable should
+ print the contents of the file it gets as its argument to stdout
+ and exit. If your man command calls some pager, that pager
+ should have this behavior (various ports of Unix command `more'
+ and the DJGPP port of GNU Less behave that way).
+
+ One `man' clone is available as v2apps/manNNb.zip from the DJGPP
+ sites on SimTel.NET.
+
+
+4. Compressed Info Files
+ ---------------------
+
+ Info allows you to hold your Info files in compressed form, to save
+ disk space. When a file Info wants cannot be found, it will
+ automatically try to find that file in compressed form. Info does
+ this by trying to find the original file with specific extensions.
+ Each extension tells Info which program should be called to
+ decompress the file.
+
+ This port supports compression by the GNU Gzip program. When Info
+ cannot find a file `foo', it will first try to find `foo.z' or
+ `foo.gz'. If this fails, and the file has an extension, the last
+ one or two characters of the extension are replaced by `z' and `gz'
+ respectively, and Info tries again. If it finds any of these, it
+ will call the `GUnzip' program to decompress the file, catch its
+ output and display it. (The original compressed file stays
+ intact.)
+
+ So, to use this feature, compress your files with Gzip and call the
+ compressed files using the following as guidelines:
+
+ foo --> foo.gz
+ foo.inf --> foo.igz
+ foo.i5 --> foo.i5z
+ foo.25 --> foo.25z
+
+ If you have a package whose Info docs are split into more than 9
+ sub-files and you need to compress those files, you will have to
+ rename the sub-files from `foo.iNN' to `foo.NN' so that there will
+ be place for the trailing `z' in the compressed names. Don't
+ forget to edit the indirect file table in the main Info file and
+ change the sub-file filenames there too!
+
+ An alternative for those packages which have more than 99 Info
+ sub-files is to generate them from the Texinfo sources and force
+ Makeinfo to produce files without the .iNN extensions, like this:
+
+ makeinfo -o foo foo.txi
+
+ This causes Makeinfo to generate file names like foo-1, foo-2,
+ etc., which leave more place for the numeric index. If necessary,
+ Makeinfo will automatically remove characters from the end of the
+ argument to `-o'. For example, "-o texinfo" produces files
+ texinf-1, ..., texin-10, ..., texi-100, etc. on platforms which
+ only support 8+3 file names.
+
+ Saying "@setfilename foo" near the beginning of the Texinfo source
+ file is another way of forcing Makeinfo to produce files without
+ the .iNN extensions.
+
+ Using Makeinfo to produce files whose names are "compression-ready"
+ is more convenient, since you don't need to edit the the indirect
+ file table to reflect the changes in file names.
+
+ On platforms which support long filenames, the usual Info behavior
+ of appending `.gz' or `.Z' to the original filename also works;
+ this is done *before* Info checks the above butchered names.
+
+ Special considerations apply if you are installing Info on dual
+ DOS/Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP system, where you'd like Info to work with
+ the same files both in plain DOS and from the Windows DOS box. In
+ this case, you should make sure your compressed Info files follow
+ the 8+3 DOS naming conventions outlined above, even though Info
+ supports long file names on Windows 9X. Also, you need to turn off
+ the generation of numeric tails in short 8+3 aliases Windows
+ creates for long names (if you don't know how, the DJGPP FAQ list
+ explains it).
+
+ Please note: for the automatic decompression to work, Info must be
+ able to find the file it looks for with an extension which
+ indicates that the file is compressed. Do NOT call the compressed
+ files as the original uncompressed files were called, or Info
+ won't be able to find them! File names like bison-1, gcc.i10 or
+ make.info-3 have nothing in them to suggest that they are
+ compressed, so don't expect Info to uncompress them.
+
+
+5. Printing Nodes
+ --------------
+
+ Info has a `print-node' command. It works by piping the contents of
+ the current node through a program which is named by the environment
+ variable INFO_PRINT_COMMAND. That command should read its standard
+ input and write it to your printer. Find any such program, put its
+ name into the above environment variable, and you can print nodes from
+ within Info.
+
+ If the value of INFO_PRINT_COMMAND begins with a redirection
+ character `>', Info will write the contents of the node to the file
+ whose name follows the `>' character.
+
+ If INFO_PRINT_COMMAND is not defined, the DJGPP port will use
+ ">PRN" as the default, which causes it to print to the local printer
+ device, PRN.
+
+6. Bug Reports
+ -----------
+
+ If you see any bugs which seem specific to this DOS port, please tell
+ me about them.
+
+
+ Enjoy,
+
+ Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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