If your INFOPATH variable is correctly set to /usr/info then I'd say that the problem is that your info directory page doesn't include a full index to all the info files like it should.
The install-info program is used to keep the "dir" index file up to date by adding the appropriate entries from the .info files, in this case: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * diff: (diff). GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, cmp, patch END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY So I guess that the right thing to do would be for the postinstall script for each package that includes info files to run install-info. Looks like many don't, including diff which doesn't have any postinstall script. So as a work around you'll have to build the dir file yourself. Mark. -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Rosenzweig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 March 2002 06:31 To: Cygwin Cc: Robert Mark Bram Subject: Re: Not all mans available I once asked along same lines and I was told that originally in GNU info was going to be the replacement to man system... Why I am not sure but that must have not worked out really well since half the stuff info digs up seems to be manpages but without the eyecandy (highlighting and underline). Even when at the bottom of the manpage it says, see info for complete documentation, info still digs up same old manpage. The hypertext abilities are nice to have of course, if there is a lot of cross-references and see-also's. More directly to your query, I don't think there are any spare manpages or info files anywhere. There is also documentation in /usr/doc but you will not find diff there. Documentation to diff is in info format but I was unable to get to it through the top menu of info. 'info diff' doesn't work either, info --file=diff works. I think I am missing out on something very basic here because this doesn't seem very natural to me (after 'man', I guess). As for 'read' thats a bash inbuilt command and it is part of the bash manpage or info page. Here info vindicates itself, navigating to the right section is much easier through hyperlinks than linear text of manpage. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Mark Bram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: Not all mans available > Hi all! > > When I try "man read" or "man diff" I am told by Cygwin "No manual entry for > read" or "No manual entry for diff". > > Was there a setup option with Cygwin I didn't include in order to get all > the manuals? > > Is there a way for to download them? > > Thanks! > > Rob > > :) > :-} > ;-> > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
