Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Kevin Wright" To: "'Mumit Khan'" Cc: Subject: RE: info: dir: No such file or directory Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:12:03 -0700 Message-ID: <006101be8dbd$2c481750$8f88f726@holstein.ASPECTDV.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Mumit, FYI, I fought info for a long time before I got it to work. Here is what I found out for my cygwin installation: to create a dir file, use gen-dir-node (in the texinfo distribution) 1. cd /usr/local/info 2. gen-dir-node /usr/local/info > dir 3. If you are using textmounts, the dir file will have ^Ms and you will get an error: info: Cannot find the node "Top". To fix this, use a program such as trans to convert the file to a unix file: trans -l dir All info files will also have to be converted to unix files or info won't read them properly. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got trans.exe from. There should also be a dos2unix program around somewhere. Hope I could shed some light on the subject. Kevin Wright > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Mumit Khan > Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 6:29 AM > To: R. Hickling > Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: info: dir: No such file or directory > > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, R. Hickling wrote: > > > When I type 'info ' I just get > > > > info: dir: No such file or directory > > > > Do I need an environment variable or something? > > > > Info needs a directory to look up the various info pages > installed and to > give you a choice. I'm attaching a info dir file which you can put in > one of the standard places where info searches for dir (or > use INFOPATH > environment variable or use ``--directory '' argument): > > /usr/local/info > /usr/info > /usr/local/lib/info > /usr/lib/info > /usr/local/gnu/info > /usr/local/gnu/lib/info > /usr/gnu/info > /usr/gnu/lib/info > /opt/gnu/info > /usr/share/info > /usr/share/lib/info > /usr/local/share/info > /usr/local/share/lib/info > /usr/gnu/lib/emacs/info > /usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info > /usr/local/lib/emacs/info > /usr/local/emacs/info > . > > You'll need to uncompress the dir.gz before putting it in one of the > above directories (gunzip -v dir.gz). > http://www.delorie.com/ for on-line docs of GNU programs such as info. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com