Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Ronan Waide
On March 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Okay, then how does the 'info' program from the command-line find the > /usr/share/info/dir file? When I do 'echo $INFOPATH' it's > empty. Nothing there. > I'm guessing that's in the documentation. > Maybe it would be helpful if the build simply perform

Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Steve Connet
Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not trying to be rude about it, but you need to read the manual for > info. This is all pretty basic stuff about how info works. Okay I will. Ah, yet another week every night after work reading documentation. Can't tell you how many weeks already I've sp

Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Ronan Waide
On March 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > BTW, I found a 'dir' file on my linux machine in /usr/share/info/ > There is also an identical 'info-dir' file in /etc/ > > Maybe if $INFOPATH isn't set, info uses the $PATH environment variable > to find the 'dir' file? > > Do I need to create another '

Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Steve Connet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > And also, do you have a BBDB info file in that directory? And is > there a `dir' file (`dir' is the file name) in that directory? If > there is no `dir' file, you can create one with the `install-info' > program which is part of Texinfo. BTW, I foun

Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Steve Connet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > On 15 Mar 2001, Steve Connet wrote: > > > TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/tex > > INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/texinfo > > I wonder if the colon messes up the values? Does it help to do this? > > INFOPATH=${INFOPATH}:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/texinfo

Re: BBDB 'net' field wishes

2001-03-16 Thread Ronan Waide
On March 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Even if some of these extra addresses are invalid or out of date, > there are still messages corresponding to almost all of them in my > mailboxes, so deleting them from the BBDB record is not a permanent > solution. For a lot of records they significantl

BBDB 'net' field wishes

2001-03-16 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] snip explanation of `net' field > > > Hope this clarifies things a bit. > > Yup, thanks. I agree, its probably time to change the `net' thing but > can see where it isn't a big deal like it is. Since this issue has come up... What I tend

Re: simple chores - add a new phone number

2001-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > You can add a new field with `C-o'. This way, you can also add phone > numbers. > kai Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > This is the command you want. When I add a new phone I > select the record. Type 'C-o', it asks me wha

simple chores - add a new phone number

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas E Deweese
> "HP" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HP> This is probably easy to do but so far has eluded me. HP> I find when creating new entries, getting to the phone section, HP> bbdb prompts me for `Location', and as long as I keep giving HP> `locations' I can add more phone numbers or fa

Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-16 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 15 Mar 2001, Steve Connet wrote: > TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/tex > INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/texinfo I wonder if the colon messes up the values? Does it help to do this? INFOPATH=${INFOPATH}:$HOME/bbdb-2.2/texinfo And also, do you have a BBDB info file in that directory?

Re: simple chores - add a new phone number

2001-03-16 Thread Kai Großjohann
You can add a new field with `C-o'. This way, you can also add phone numbers. kai -- Be indiscrete. Do it continuously. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/