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Re: MinGW "info" program broken?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: MinGW "info" program broken?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:58:43 +0300

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:17:53 +0100
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 01:24:32PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> >   - The behaviour of the 'ginfo' program on MSVC is the same as on mingw,
> >     albeit not really useful currently: './info -f texinfo.info' spits out
> >     the entire manual to stdout at once. It looks like the device gets set
> >     to stdout, or there is no knowledge about the terminal window's height,
> >     or something like that.
> 
> Is that also true on the MinGW build you did, Eli?

No, of course not.  The stand-alone Info reader built with MinGW works
flawlessly for me.

> I had understood that "info" was running well on MinGW so it would be worth
> understanding any differences between yours and Bruno's setup.

I'm indeed curious why this happens with the MSVC build.



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