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Re: re info
- To: Gongtao Wang <yww34 at netzero dot com>
- Subject: Re: re info
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:09:49 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
--- Gongtao Wang <yww34@netzero.com> wrote:
>
> hi, Earnie,
>
Hi Gongtao,
Just a word of advice and request, please ask such questions to the list and
not to me personally. You'll never know when I can get back to you and someone
else may know the answer to your question.
>
> I check it out and implemented it. The first part run though smoothly. But I
> do't know how to following:
>
>
> 1)Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the /usr/info
> directory. But you need to create a dir file there before the standalone
> info program (probably /usr/bin/info) can be used to read those info files.
> This is how you do it:
>
> bash$ cd /usr/info
> bash$ for f in *.info ; do install-info $f dir ; done
>
> This may generate warnings:
>
> install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gzip.info'
> install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `time.info'
>
> The install-info command cannot parse these files, so you will have to add
> their entries to /usr/info/dir by hand.
>
> How to add them manually.
>
Use your favorite editor. Cygwin supplies VIM for your enjoyment.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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