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	Williams on Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:25 -0500 (CDT))
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP ports of many packages recompiled
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:25 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> The newly released archive (305225 bytes) has man pages for five
> programs (locatedb, xargs, locate, updatedb, find) in man/cat1 and
> man/cat5.

Yes, I see that.  And the fact that the unformatted pages are in catN
rather than in manN is certainly not a good thing.

> -: > the info files don't work with the 2.03 version of `dir'
> -: 
> -: Findutils have several entries in DIR.  Which one(s) don't work, and
> -: why?
> 
> This was very strange.  After unzipping the archive (and before updating
> `dir') just typing `info find' produced a crash and stack trace.  Yet
> the headers in the .info files from the old and new distro are identical.
> I can't figure this one.  I'm away from my DJGPP box or I would run some
> additional tests.

Please try to investigate this when you can.  Do you have the latest
Info binary installed?  Is your DIR file compressed?