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Re: info and dir.old


From: Mike Ballard
Subject: Re: info and dir.old
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:35:16 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

On Fri Nov 14, Mike Ballard disturbed my nap when he said:

> Hi - 
> 
> I've used Info for years.  I'm having an exceptionally irritating problem
> I can't find the cause of - something is searching my INFOPATH and
> renaming my personal top-level dir to dir.old (i.e., turning it off).
> Anyone know what I can look for to stop this highly agitating behavior?
> 

Never mind.  I'm using gentoo which has a tool named "emerge" for
installing source code.  One of its last steps when doing so is, for some
(inexplicable?) reason, renaming my top-level dir (found evidently by
parsing INFOPATH).

Mike
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