Re: pinfo from testing or unstable.

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
>   Can people who run testing or unstable verify the following?
>   
>   I have a non harmful bug with pinfo on testing or unstable. More
> specifically, I can scroll past what was supposed to be the bottom of
> the top dir page and get a 2nd copy of that page. For example when I
> run pinfo and scroll towards the bottom of the page I can get the
> following:
>  
>  
>     * units: (units).                           Units conversion.
>     * wdiff: (wdiff).                           Word difference finder.
>     * GNU Utilities: (coreutils).               GNU Utilities.
>     * Mtools: (mtools).                         Mtools: utilities to access
>                                                 DOS disks in Unix.
> 
>     File: dir       Node: Top       This is the top of the INFO tree
>       This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.  Typing "d"
>       returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h"  gives a
> 	
I have

ii  pinfo          0.6.6p1-1      An alternative info-file viewer

on sarge and do not get the same behaviour.

>     * Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
> 	
> What the output of 
>     ls -l /usr/info 
> ?

zsh % ls -l /usr/info
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 2002-08-12 12:23 /usr/info
-> share/info

If you want to see the contents of that directory, use 
ls -l /usr/info

Regards.
Johann
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