From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Ballard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info and dir.old Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:35:16 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068803398 31676 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 09:49:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 10:49:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKaaR-0003Vt-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:49:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKbSE-0003kb-SB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:45:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!4507221d!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.121.137.169 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1068802516 165.121.137.169 (Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:35:16 PST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:35:16 PST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118231 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14173 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 -- mike.ballard--at--earthlink.net "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic and so am I"