From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: managing multiple dir files Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:33:22 +0100 Message-ID: <36FDC02C-7DC7-43D0-B2CA-8B58BDAAAE57@Freenet.DE> References: <06C82703-2F47-43FC-9096-E1A38324DCA9@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205432987 25466 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 18:29:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs list To: Tyler Smith Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 19:30:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZsBh-0000J6-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:29:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZsB7-00063E-GU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrJ5-0000pk-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrJ2-0000nI-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrJ1-0000n3-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mout2.freenet.de ([195.4.92.92]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZrJ1-00076F-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.4.92.17] (helo=7.mx.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JZrIz-00065T-6a; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:33:25 +0100 Original-Received: from fcce3.f.ppp-pool.de ([195.4.204.227]:56783 helo=[192.168.1.2]) by 7.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1JZrIy-0004wv-V5; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:33:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <06C82703-2F47-43FC-9096-E1A38324DCA9@Web.DE> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:27:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52378 Archived-At: Am 13.03.2008 um 15:52 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > it *might* work to uninstall them temporarily, and then create a =20 > sym-link I forgot to mention why it *might* work: some installation procedures =20= check whether info is a directory. If not, it is "converted" to a =20 directory. I think the programmers of such procedures should explicitly be =20 mentioned on the web. -- Greetings Pete Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. =96 Oscar Wilde