Thomas, Thanks. I have 7.2, and it worked great!
It's nice to have info lispref back. Glen Thomas Porter writes: >On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:04:47PM -0600, Glen Lee Edwards thoughtfully expounded: >> Using Red Hat 7.2, info 4.0b-3. It isn't pulling up several info files, >> including but not limited to xemacs and lispref. The info files for these two >> are installed in /usr/share/info, as is the info file for emacs, which is >> working. How do I get info to access all the info files on the system? > > >Glen, > >I have had this problem with RH 6.2 as well. > >First see where /usr/share/info/dir is located. For me it is symlinked to >/etc/info-dir, but RH 7.2 may not do this. The key point is that I had to run >/sbin/install-info for each info file in the /usr/share/info directory, in >order to update it fully. This works on the foo.info.gz files as well. > >I did it (as root) with a bash loop like so: ># [tporter@vasili tporter] su ># Password: xxxxx ># [root@vasili tporter] cd /usr/share/info ># [root@vasili info]$ for i in *.gz ># > do ># > /sbin/install-info -d /etc/info-dir $i ># > done > >It will complain about already existing entries, but will add your new ones. I >had to do this for the non-.gz ones as well. > >HTH > >-- >Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], >'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will >the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the >kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
