From: Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org>
Subject: Re: info and dir.old
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:35:16 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k763mgyy.fsf@west_f1.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fzgr5xw6.fsf@west_f1.net
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"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 5:21 info and dir.old Mike Ballard
2003-11-14 9:35 ` Mike Ballard [this message]
2003-11-14 17:31 ` Ian Zimmerman
2003-11-16 4:11 ` Mike Ballard
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