compressing info files w/ gzip or bzip2
Dr. Volker Zell
Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Sat Aug 3 02:24:00 GMT 2002
>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> writes:
Joshua> 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.
>>
Joshua> I've tested this on RH72. and RH7.3 machines and noticed the same thing.
Joshua> It looks like info must be failing on just the cygwin platform with compressed
Joshua> files. I guess I'll have to take a look at the sources and figure out what's
Joshua> going on. I'll cross-post to cygwin@cygwin.com and see if anyone else has
Joshua> noticed this or has a workaround. Thanks.
Hi
As a side note, is info (info 4.2) honoring the INFOPATH variable for you ?
In my case it's just using info files located in /usr/info.
Ciao
Volker
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