Printing: was Re: compiler bug

[Russell Whitaker]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, J. David Bryan wrote:

> On 16 Oct 2001, at 14:47, CBFalconer wrote:
>
> > This info system is driving me nuts.  I can't get from it to the
> > printer or (preferably) to a text file.
>
> GNU Texinfo can process the Texinfo files present in the source
> distribution into an HTML version of the manual, if that would help.  If
> you have a Postscript printer, a PS version of the manual is available on
> the GPC Web site.  There's also a version of Aladdin Ghostscript for DOS
> that would enable you to print the PS manual on any type of supported non-
> PS printer.  See:
>
>   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>
> I don't use DJGPP myself, so I don't know what other option might be
> available to you.
>

If your printer is setup to print plain ascii files, then try:

  makeinfo --fill-column=78 --no-headers --force -o <file>.txt <file>.texi

You will get an error message at the end which you can ignore.

   Russ