From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org
Date:	Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:18:02 +0200
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Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP ports of many packages recompiled
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:41:39 +0200
I wrote:
> The find.texinfo file contains a bug that I have never noticed before.
> The node: top is incomplete. This means it looks like:
>  @node Top, Introduction, , (dir)
>  @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
>instead of:
>  @node Top, Introduction, (dir), (dir)
>  @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
Of course, this is complete *nonsens*.

The reason why the find.info files do not work as they should
is because I have create them on Win95 with LFN and later renamed them.
The find.info file now contains lines that look similar to this ones:
   Indirect:
   find.info-1: 1086
   find.info-2: 50880

Later I have renamed the files: find.info-1 and find.info-2
into find.i1 and find.i2.
Of course, now info reads find.info and searches for files with
an info-? extension that do not exist any more.
This is the reason why I got all the time the error message:
  Can not find node top.

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> This was very strange.  After unzipping the archive (and before updating
> `dir') just typing `info find' produced a crash and stack trace.  Yet
[snip]
It is completely impossible to me to reproduce this bug.
I have tested the *bogus* info files from the distribution on two systems.
1) MSDOS 6.22 with cwsdpmi r4 and *NO* groff installation.
   When running either:
      info find
   or:
      info and choosing "find" from inside the DIR menu
   I get always the error message:
      Can not find node top.
2) A DOS window in Win95 and groff installed:
   When running the command:
      info find
   I get the formated man page of find.
   When I choosed some menu point from inside
   the DIR file, I got the message:
      can not find node top.
No matter how I have invoked info, the machine
**never** crashed with a stack trace.

I have inspected all other binary packages I had uploaded
to simtel and this one is the only one with bogus info files.

I will upload a new binary package tomorrow and meanwhile
you can recreate the find.infos with the source package
if you want.
There should be no reason for failing info pages.

Once again, excuse any inconveniences caused.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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