Re: Manpath and Infopath

2001-03-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 16 Mar 2001, Steve Connet wrote: Maybe if $INFOPATH isn't set, info uses the $PATH environment variable to find the 'dir' file? Many Unix programs use some default directory if nothing else is specified. The default directory is normally compiled into the binary. Only if the environment

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 spent

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 performed