compressing info files w/ gzip or bzip2

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > [18:50:18]info$ grep -A2 START gzip.info
> > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> > * Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
> > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> > $ info gzip # this works fine
> > $ gzip gzip.info
> > $ zgrep -A2 START gzip.info.gz
> > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> > * Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
> > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> > $ info gzip # Fails with "Unable to find node referenced by `Gzip' in
> > `(dir)Top'."
>
> [...]
>
> As you may be aware, on a redhat-7.3  system the files in
> /usr/share/info are all gzipped and none display this problem.  I
> have the most recent gnu texinfo (4.2) same as you.
>
> > $ install-info.exe --delete gzip /usr/info/dir
> > $ grep gzip dir # no output, as expected
> > $ gzip.exe gzip.info
> > $ install-info gzip.info.gz /usr/info/dir
> > $ grep gzip dir
> > * Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
> > $ info gzip # Same error as before
>
>
> > $ info -f gzip.info.gz
> > info: gzip.info.gz: Invalid argument
>
> I my system, if file name is gzip.info.gz and I say:
> info -f ./gzip.info  it works.
> Note that the path must be given when using info -f  even if its in
> teh current directory `info -f ./some.info'
> Note too that even though the filename has a gz extension, I left it
> off when using info -f and it works anyway.
>

I've tested this on RH72. and RH7.3 machines and noticed the same thing.
It looks like info must be failing on just the cygwin platform with compressed
files. I guess I'll have to take a look at the sources and figure out what's
going on. I'll cross-post to cygwin@cygwin.com and see if anyone else has
noticed this or has a workaround. Thanks.


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