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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:17:04 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: The infamous missing or screwed up info dir file.
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I'm for just abolishing this file.  Get rid of it altogether.  Just `rm
-f /usr/info/dir'.  The reason is obvious.  Having it causes many
members of this list problems.  The answer to all questions concerning
info and no dir file is `info --file=/usr/info/info'.  With this I never
have a problem with the dir file being wrong or missing.  With this I
always find the info file I need.  I don't need a menu file of files.  I
just need to know which package the binary came from and if it's a FSF
GNU program then --version will give that to me if I don't already know
it.

Conclusion:
Don't depend on the dir file.
Use the --file=/usr/info/foo option.

Earnie.

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