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Subject:	Re: pinfo-0.6.9-1 -- Size and Crash
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From:	"Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:59:07 +0200
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>>>>> Barry Buchbinder writes:

    > (2) Crash

    > This is more serious.  However, since I cannot imagine pinfo could be
    > crashing without others having already reported it, I expect that it is
    > a problem with my installation and I'd appreciate hints (or, better yet,
    > explicit instructions) as to how I might trouble-shoot it.

I have found it crashes when there is no dir file in the directories
pointed to by INFOPATH:

For example my packages xemacs-sumo and xemacs-mule-sumo both have info
directories which are used by xemacs but by default have no dir file.


04:51 PM [544]> INFOPATH=/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info pinfo 
Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.9
*** starting debugger for pid 4812, tid 5032

    
Ciao
  Volker
  

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