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diff --git a/systems/msdos/GNU-texindex/texindex.README b/systems/msdos/GNU-texindex/texindex.README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c221048fd --- /dev/null +++ b/systems/msdos/GNU-texindex/texindex.README @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Christian Spieler Thursday, 02-April-1992 + +This archive contains a patched version of the GNU index sorter +"texindex" from the texinfo-2.14 package. +The patches have been applied to get a working texindex on MSDOS systems. + +Contents of the archive: + + texindex.c - the patched source + getopt.c - .. + getopt.h - .. + texindex.exe - executable for MSDOS compiled by MSC 5.10 + alloca.mar - GNU's alloca() replacement for VMS + changes - a hacked change log + 00readme - this file + +Some hint for compiling on MSDOS: +- The program needs a lot of data space, you have to use a large data model. + Since the code fits into one 64k segment, compact model is sufficient. +- The default MSC stack allocation is too small. Reserving 8 kByte (0x2000) + of stack space seems to be sufficient for MSC. +- For MSC 5.1, the following command should compile an executable (nearly) + identical to the distributed file: + + cl -AC -Ox -W3 -Fm -F 2000 texindex.c getopt.c /link /exe + + (The -W3 and -Fm flags are optional, remove them if you do not want + warning messages or a map file.) + +-- +Christian Spieler +<spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> + + +====================================================================== + +I have added texindex.pch which is a patch file to produce +Christian's versions from the original ones. (Of course, you might +also produce the original ones with this file, just call patch with +-R.) And I've added COPYING (thou shalt not have an distribution +without it ;-). + +Thanks to him for the fine work. + +-- +Joachim Schrod +<schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> |