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From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: TeX -> ASCII
Message-ID: <1992Aug20.120423.27579@panix.com>
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:04:23 GMT
References: <9208181401.AA29660@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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George Jetson <pynq@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:

>So, I ftp'd to the indicated place, got GNUINFO.ZOO, and extracted
>MAKEINFO.EXE (from the OUT directory in the ZOO) and ran it on my DOS
>machine and got:

> <1> (E:\) makeinfo gcc.tex
> Making info file `gcc.info' from `gcc.tex'.
> gcc.info: No such file or directory

Just a WAG: DOS only allows a 3 letter filename extension. When
makeinfo tries to make gcc.info, it makes gcc.inf.

dhs      spencer@panix.com