Dear Sir or Madam, with the attached file stored in /usr/local/info/dir, info segmentation faulted repeatedly.
I realize that this file may be in a bad format, but it caused me to curse 'info' for a long time. Repeated installs and recompiles did not fix the problem, since the /usr/local/info/* was not part of the clean and reinstall cycle. I did not guess that a defective dir file would break the program, and would have rather had it ignore and warn rather than just die. I figured it out after I found that info --version #worked info --help #worked info -f /usr/info/info.info # worked # and with the '?' command I found the INFOPATH and started checking its members [drf5n@hob info]$ info --version info (GNU texinfo) 4.0b Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. Thanks for the program, Dave, -- Dave Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] (434)296-7283h 924-3954w http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/
-*- Text -*- This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info hierarchy. The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at that node, which is (dir)Top. File: dir Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics. Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h" gives a primer for first-timers, "mItem<Return>" visits the menu item named `Item', etc. * Menu: The list of major topics begins on the next line. * Octave: (octave). Interactive language for numerical computations. Library of useful routines for 'C' programing * GLIB: (glib). useful routines for 'C' programming User Interface Toolkit * GDK: (gdk). The General Drawing Kit * GTK: (gtk). The GIMP Toolkit Miscellaneous * mysql: (mysql). *MySQL* documentation. Texinfo documentation system * Info: (info). Documentation browsing system. * Standalone info program: (info-stnd). Standalone Info-reading program. * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Update info/dir entries. * makeinfo: (texinfo)makeinfo Preferred. Translate Texinfo source. * texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi. Print Texinfo documents. * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files.
