Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucsd!sdcsvax!trantor.harris-atd.com!trantor!kkerce From: kkerce@x102c.harris-atd.com (Kingsley F. Kerce) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Documentation files for GAWK Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 89 03:55:40 GMT References: <3058@rtmvax.UUCP> <2649@internal.Apple.COM> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Organization: Harris Corp. GISD, Melbourne, FL Lines: 22 In-reply-to: desnoyer@apple.com's message of 5 Jul 89 16:59:26 GMT In article <3058@rtmvax.UUCP> mbeck@rtmvax.UUCP (Mark Becker) writes: > In the recent posting of GAWK_DOC, the file GAWK-INF.O-1 has the > following as the first line (minus the '<' and '>', of course) : > > Info file gawk-info, produced by Makeinfo, -*- Text -*- from input < > > file gawk.texinfo. > And the remainder of the file looks like a database for some kind of > indexed menuing software. > > Is there some program, running under MS-DOS (this is c.b.i.p. after > all..), that takes files of this format and presents them in a readable > fashion? Freemacs, a GNU Emacs look-alike for MS-DOS machines, contains provisions (Info) for viewing the GNU Awk doc files. I seem to recall using Freemacs' Info browser on the GNU Awk files with no problems. I retrieved Freemacs via anonymous FTP from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu. -- |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| Kingsley Kerce | kkerce%x102c@trantor.harris-atd.com | Harris Corp. GISD | uunet!x102a!x102c!kkerce | PO Box 98000 MS W2/7744 (407)984-6623 | | Melbourne, FL 32902