Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:50:52 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Info.gz files Message-ID: <20031229165052.GA2853@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3FE63619.1040204@cox.net> <050213963.20031228104955@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <050213963.20031228104955@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:49:55AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Hallo David, > >Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 um 01:08 schriebst du: > >> I notice that some of the larger info files, notably gcc & related files >> plus the Cygwin-ug files, are in /usr/share/info as xxx.info.gz files. > >> Is info (supposed to be) able to handle these directly? If so, is >> special action appropriate to get them listed in the dir file -- on my >> system they are simply not being seen. >> Of course, I can unzip them - but why use up the space if info can do it >> dynamically. > >I thought that info is able to handle this directly, therefore I >provide the info pages compressed. If the info files are not seen, >then the script /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh needs to be >updated. The update-info-dir.sh script should have no problems with compressed files, assuming that install-info has no problems. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/