[ale] info

[Fulton Green]

Firstly, if you're using a VERY recent Linux distro, some mfgrs. are moving
the info and man pages into the /usr/share hierarchy, so check to see if
there's anything funky going on. Assuming that's not the case, there should
be a file called dir in /usr/info. This is known as the "root document" in
Infoland. Not only is it the default page when you exec info with no args,
but it also *seems* to be a director of sorts for where to find info docs
that you specify.

The Info system should include a utility called install-info that lets you
add entries to the dir file. There's an info page on install-info to help
you get started.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:46:37AM -0600, Joe Knapka wrote:
> man gcc works as expected, of course.
> 
> info gcc results in "info: dir: no such file or directory"
> 
> In fact "info <anything>" results in the same message, though
> a little while ago I was getting the man page for wc when I did
> "info wc". Ah, when I'm root I get the man page, when I'm
> myself I get the error. So it's an $INFOPATH problem,
> I suppose.
> 
> Still, of the great many info pages in my /usr/info
> directory, only a small number (gcc, emacs, libc, that's
> about it) are actually available via "info <keyword>". I'd
> love to know how to fix that. I usually use the Gnome
> help viewer, which magically sees everything in /usr/info,
> but sometimes I'm stuck with the text-mode info viewer.
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