Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000608011913.2189.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:19:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Get info working To: kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote: > I've noticed that info path searching doesn't appear to work 'out of the > box' for the net release. > I've done some searching, and appear to have glimmers of things I need to > do to get it working, but can't quite grok it. > Anyone have a pointer? > Info always responds thusly, INFOPATH, --directory , or whatever. > info: dir: No such file or directory > Only when I do info --file /usr/info/gcc.info or the like does it work. > > Also wouldn't mind finding a larger set of info files for the various > utilities (bash), but I'm sure I can find those. > Check the mailing list archives. You'll find instructions on how to deal with this. bash$ cd /usr/info bash$ for F in *.info; install-info $F dir; done There will be a couple of errors caused by incorrectly formatted info files. Cheers, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com