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Re: How do permanently add another search path to info?
From: |
Andrew Scrivner |
Subject: |
Re: How do permanently add another search path to info? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:19:45 -0600 |
>> From: " Andrew Scrivner" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:50:34 -0600
>>
>> But why then is there an info search path at all if everything belongs
>> in /usr/local/info?
>
>As Karl told you, you can indeed change INFOPATH, but since you sayd
>in your original message that you want the setting take effect for all
>the users, I thought that changing INFOPATH is not the best way to
>handle this, since it is not easy to propagate that change to all the
>users, unless you have them all execute some common script when they
>log in.
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I figured that I would have to recompile info to fix this, the fix is
apparently to edit ./info/filesys.h and add another default search
path to the source.
Or you can redefine DEFAULT_INFOPATH when you compile.
Regards,
Andrew Scrivner - UnixOps - Information Technology Services
University of Colorado - Boulder Campus