Re: install-info fails with gnus.info.bz2

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From: Kai Großjohann
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:00

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coryechols@my-deja.com writes:

> This process worked with most of the top-level info files, but
> not with others, most notably gnus.info.bz2.  In every case,
> install-info complained about the file not containing directory
> entries.

Well, maybe install-info doesn't grok *.bz2.  You could bunzip2 the
file, then use gzip to compress it again.  It will be larger, but
maybe it works.

kai
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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
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