Re: Bug [was: Complete bewildered newbie question]

[David Nicholls]

Henry F. Mollet wrote:


>> Q.1  When I type (in the rxvt window) the command 'help -i anything' I
>> get the message:
>> 'info: /opt/octave/info/octave.info: No such file or directory
>> help: sorry, `anything' is not indexed in the manual'
>> where 'anything' is any one of the Octave commands
> 
> octave:2> help -i anything
> info: /Users/mollet/.info: No such file or directory
> no index entries found for `anything'
> help: sorry, `anything' is not indexed in the manual
> % because it is *not* in the manual

'anything' was intended as a dummy word standing for any of the
commands, in the context of this post.

> % Now trying something that should be in the manual:
> octave:1> help -i plot
> info: /Users/mollet/.info: No such file or directory
> File: octave.info,  Node: Two-Dimensional Plotting,  Next: Specialized
> Two-Dime\
> nsional Plots,  Up: Plotting
> Two-Dimensional Plotting
> ========================

Here's what I get:

>> help -i plot
info: /opt/octave/info/octave.info: No such file or directory
help: sorry, `plot' is not indexed in the manual
>>

And what's more, there is indeed no info directory nor octave.info file.
 It appears the sourceforge windows installer did not create the .info
file, not its directory.

This explains the problem, and it means that the normal octave help
system is inoperative.

DN

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