[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:50:09 +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> > Comparing this to the error message you get leads me to believe > > that your dir file is present but corrupted in some way. > > Yes, you are right. I just have the /usr/info/dir and I did strings > on it and it looks bad. There's stuff about nntp and failed > commands and so on. Then there are parts that look like what a > directory might. The file is not a text file that can be edited. I don't know all that much about the exact syntax of info files, but they're basically plain ascii. > I've been looking for how to make a directory, because I had thought > there might be a problem with it before. "info" is a bad word to do > a search on, if you know what I mean. I saw some SuSE posts about > using a program called mkinfodir, but I don't even know if that is > what it does. It isn't on my system. I could send you my /usr/info/dir, if that would help. You could remove the entries for packages you don't use and re-install packages that are missing. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
