> Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > > > Ever since I upgraded to 1.1 (about a month ago) I haven't been able to > > get info to work properly. I've purged and installed it a couple of times, > > to no avail.
> Susan: > > Check to see if there is still a 'dir' file in your info directory. > > I had something similar happen once a while ago and it was caused by > the missing dir (top of info tree). > -- > Respectfully: > > David Walter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi David -- Thanks for responding, but yes, there was a dir file in the /usr/info directory. Having been given your hint, though, I read a little ways through dir, and then tried the following, which relieved the problem somewhat for the program 'tar': install-info --remove tar install-info tar.info.gz That added tar, but complained that I hadn't specified a section, so tar was being added 'to the end of the list', which _sounded_ undesirable. In order to install all the other commands with info files in /usr/info, I'll have to remove, then add them, one at a time. By doing that the way I did it for 'tar', I'll wind up with a system where all the files have been randomly added to the back of the bus, as it were -- this can't possibly be the 'right' way to do it. I'd not worry about this so much except I just made a clean install to another system a couple of days ago, and I see that the info system is equally as messed up on that one as it is on this one. So something bad happened to info, install-info, or something else in the last few months, and I just don't know enough about info to diagnose it very specifically. Thanks again for your help. If any more ideas come to mind, ... :-) Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
