On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:50:52AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:49:55AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Hallo David, >> >>Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 um 01:08 schriebst du: >> >>> I notice that some of the larger info files, notably gcc & related files >>> plus the Cygwin-ug files, are in /usr/share/info as xxx.info.gz files. >> >>> Is info (supposed to be) able to handle these directly? If so, is >>> special action appropriate to get them listed in the dir file -- on my >>> system they are simply not being seen. >>> Of course, I can unzip them - but why use up the space if info can do it >>> dynamically. >> >>I thought that info is able to handle this directly, therefore I >>provide the info pages compressed. If the info files are not seen, >>then the script /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh needs to be >>updated. > >The update-info-dir.sh script should have no problems with compressed files, >assuming that install-info has no problems.
...and install-info, unsurprisingly, has no problems with .gz files. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
