[Pinfo-devel] pinfo fails to find some info files

Steven Robson steven at jtrobson.co.uk
Tue May 16 16:51:05 UTC 2006


Hi folks,

I'm having a little trouble with pinfo, it doesn't find all the info files 
that "info" can.

Most of the info docs are stored in /usr/info. pinfo finds the files that 
end .info and .info.gz, but quite a number, such as emacs' documentation, 
simply end .gz.

So, `info emacs` works, but `pinfo emacs` fails with: 

Caught signal 11, bye!
pinfo: crash with: No such file or directory

emacs.gz is a valid info document, and it's in a place where pinfo is looking, 
but pinfo cannot see it.

How do I make pinfo see all the documentation, like info does? Is this a bug 
in pinfo?

Cheers,

Steven




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