Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20001110120949.15558.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: re info To: Gongtao Wang Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Gongtao Wang wrote: > > hi, Earnie, > Hi Gongtao, Just a word of advice and request, please ask such questions to the list and not to me personally. You'll never know when I can get back to you and someone else may know the answer to your question. > > I check it out and implemented it. The first part run though smoothly. But I > do't know how to following: > > > 1)Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the /usr/info > directory. But you need to create a dir file there before the standalone > info program (probably /usr/bin/info) can be used to read those info files. > This is how you do it: > > bash$ cd /usr/info > bash$ for f in *.info ; do install-info $f dir ; done > > This may generate warnings: > > install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gzip.info' > install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `time.info' > > The install-info command cannot parse these files, so you will have to add > their entries to /usr/info/dir by hand. > > How to add them manually. > Use your favorite editor. Cygwin supplies VIM for your enjoyment. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com