getting a little OT here but can all the man databases be converted to info files? what can a "python" newbie do or have to follow in order to do this?
it's just a little project of mine to exercise my mind. ----- Original Message ----- From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:14 PM Subject: Re: mandb gets stuck! > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:36:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database > > > (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. > > > > How did you determine this? > > About two months ago, I wrote the code that is getting into a loop. ;) I > knew it was that because of the various patterns of output he described. > I also don't think it's possible for a broken man page to cause mandb to > loop, although if you manage it I'd love to hear about it ... > > Besides, Eugene sent me the database in question, and I had a look at it > with accessdb. > > -- > Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
