problem with help -i

[Mike Miller]

As you can see in the appended transcript of my octave session, I'm having
a problem getting help -i to work.  The error message depends on which
directory I'm in (a path issue, I presume).  I'm not sure what's causing
my problem.  Am I using an out-of-date copy of GNU Info?  Any suggestions
welcome.

Regards,

-- 
Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/

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octave:1> help -i rand

sh: info: cannot execute
error: help: unable to find info!
error: evaluating index expression near line 2, column 1

octave:2> cd /opt/FSFtexi/bin

octave:3> ls -lAF

total 518
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       145736 Apr  5  1996 info*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        81668 Apr  5  1996 makeinfo*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        10120 Apr  5  1996 texi2dvi*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        16972 Apr  5  1996 texindex*

octave:8> help -i rand

info: unrecognized option `--index-search'
Usage: info [-d dir-path] [-f info-file] [-o output-file] [-n
node-name]...
            [--directory dir-path] [--file info-file] [--node
node-name]...
            [--help] [--output output-file] [--subnodes] [--version]
            [--dribble dribble-file] [--restore from-file]
            [menu-selection ...]
error: help: unable to find info!
error: evaluating index expression near line 8, column 1