RE: Adding documents to the mule info tree

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I assume that you mean that you can't find the !@#$% dir file.  It
> should be /usr/info/dir or /usr/local/info/dir depending on your
> installation.  If you have a really FSSTND-compliant system it might
> end up being /usr/share/info/dir or /usr/local/share/info/dir.
> Once you've found that file, move the new documentation into the same
> directory, put the appropriate menu items in (follow the examples

  I should have been more specific, but it was so late and I had really
had it.  Yeah, my docs live in /usr/local/info, and I have put the new
ones there.  Of course they don't automatically show up, but have to
be added to the menu (this much I gathered from info's self-
documentation).  I presumed that I should add something like *w3 to
the menu (by just typing it in), but when I tried that mule would 
complain that the file was read-only.  Fair enough.  So I try the
same as root (who has r/w permissions on all the files in /usr/local/info),
but was still told the file is read-only.  At this point I gave up.

  Ok.  I just went and looked for the dir file you mentioned, and it is
there, and I was able to add the appropriate entry for w3, and it all
works!  Great!  My blunder was trying to edit to info-presented menu 
directly,  rather than the file "dir" itself.  (Of course, what
_really_ made the difference is that this time I used 'vi' to do the
edit ;-) 

  Thanks, Steve.

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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