Get info working

[Earnie Boyd]

--- kulack@us.ibm.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,

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