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Info mode cannot read the Index of the elisp manu

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 21:35
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Subject: Info mode cannot read the Index of the elisp manual
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From: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND)
Date: 10 Oct 90 01:08:07 GMT
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When I try to read the Index of the elisp manual, I get the following error:

Signalling: (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p Top1023)
  byte-code("GH!?8
  byte-code("H!qebIJ!EEKL!MN
en erase-buffer insert-file-contents set-buffer-modified-p] 12)
  Info-read-subfile(1095579)
  byte-code("D
or-mode nil buffer-read-only Info-current-subfile t default-directory Info-tag-table-marker nodename pos buf buffer-file-name guesspos regexp hist substitute-in-file-name expand-file-name string-match "^\\./" file-exists-p downcase error "Info file %s does not exist" switch-to-buffer "*info*" Info-mode widen ((byte-code "
directory set-marker forward-line -8 "*" search-forward "\nEnd tag table\n" search-backward "\nTag table:\n" 2 looking-at "(Indirect)\n" get-buffer-create " *info tag table*" insert-buffer-substring match-end 0 file-name-sans-versions Info-set-mode-line marker-position marker-buffer "Node: " "" read get-buffer Info-read-subfile "No such node: \"%s\"" 1000 "Node: *" regexp-quote " *[,	\n]" foo (byte-code "EF@A##
-line 1 re-search-backward throw foo error "No such node: %s"] 8) Info-select-node] 44)
  Info-find-node(nil "Index")
  byte-code("CCDE	\"FG!HG!U
  Info-goto-node("Index")
  byte-code("BIJ!!" [completions default nil p last t item completion-ignore-case menu-item Info-goto-node Info-extract-menu-item] 3)
  Info-menu("index")
* call-interactively(Info-menu)

I do not have any problems with the other nodes.
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Francois Felix INGRAND                          SRI International, AIC
felix@AI.SRI.COM                                333, Ravenswood Avenue
(415) 859-5584                                  MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA
"Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)
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Subject: Info mode cannot read the Index of the elisp manu
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