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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:52:14 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Info.gz files
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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.
>>    
>>
>
>  
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>>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.
>>    
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>
>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. 
>
>
>Gerrit
>  
>
Ja!  I checked the info.el source; it appears to be coded to decompress 
the files if/when they are referenced.  Doesn't seem to be dynamic - 
once uncompressed, I think the files remain that way.  But I could 
research it more deeply.

However, it appears that install-info does not extract the directory 
information for the .info.gz files; therefore they are not visible from 
the root of the info directory.  Again, more research is in order.  I'll 
try to take a look at it this week.

M f G,

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