Info won't recognize database

Bradley T. Freese freese at dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com
Wed May 15 07:50:41 AEST 1991


massa at aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Mike Massa) writes:

> I copied the CDROM version of the infoexplorer database onto a new filesystem
> on our hard drive, mounted the filesystem in the same place the cdrom was
> previously mounted, and tried to fire up infoexplorer. It returned "Cannot
> find database 'nav' in info configuration file." I checked the file ownership
> and permissions. Everything appears to be identical between the cdrom and
hard
> disk versions. Anyone know why info fails? Thanks.

Go into /usr/lpp/info/En_US/nav and rename all the files to remove the ";1"
at the end of the filenames.  Apparently, the ";1" at the end of the file
name is important to being on the CD-ROM, but it does not work on hard disk
files.  It should work.



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