> info: Terminal type 'dumb' is not smart enough to run Info. This is the precise message I was referring to, in my earlier post, when I said I could not run info 4.6 from cmd.exe.
I normally use the MSYS shell, from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download, so I have the full capabilities of bash available to me, even on the Windows platform -- cmd.exe simply doesn't cut the mustard, as a serious shell for day to day work! I suspect that the failure of info 4.6 is due to an improper termcap setup on the host machine -- you need to have a definition for TERM in the environment (say TERM=vt100), *and* a properly set up termcap database, so info will know how to control the vt100 terminal display; (I assume `dumb' is the default, if TERM is *not* set in the environment). GnuWin32 does provide a termcap implementation, so it may help to experiment with that. However, as a Q&D work around, I have found that I can install the GnuWin32 texinfo 4.6 components into my MSYS shell PATH -- *except* for info.exe -- (/usr/local or /mingw are suitable locations, but prefer /usr/local if you do not use the MinGW implementation of GCC, or perhaps even anyway). I can then use makeinfo 4.6 and friends, to compile info documentation, but use the info 4.3 reader, which is supplied with MSYS itself, to read these docs -- you do also need to remove the MSYS versions of the texinfo 4.3 components you are superceding with 4.6, from MSYS' /usr/bin directory. HTH. Keith ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
