From: INZTRUKT
Subject: Re: How to get info to show a package in its directory on gcl?
Date:
Message-ID: <75etdf$4ji@journal.concentric.net>
In article <··········@chronicle.concentric.net>,
INZTRUKT <········@cris.com> wrote:
>I just installed the package called gcl, which stands for gnu lisp
>compiler. It has no man pages, but in the packages file I see that there
>are many files that are in the info directory with .gz extension.
>
>I have spent many hours learning the basics of info.
>
>But there is no gcl that apprears in the menu. I can see each file of the
>directory /usr/info that is relevant using
>
>info -f filename, but how can it be seen automatically and the relevant
>files are automatically visited for the package under study? The files
>are:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9375 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-1.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10708 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-2.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13332 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-3.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11538 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-4.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15579 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-5.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6336 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info-6.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687 Apr 30 1995 gcl-si.info.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14710 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-2.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10179 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-3.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11817 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-4.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11917 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-5.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12459 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-6.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12887 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-7.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7159 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-8.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14390 Apr 28 1995 gcl-tk.info-1.gz
>
>Also does anyone know gcl and how it can compile lisp code to give an
>executable? Can it be done inside emacs?
>
>Thanks a lot!
>Abe
From: ····@dhh.gt.org
Subject: Re: How to get info to show a package in its directory on gcl?
Date:
Message-ID: <87k8zozwbn.fsf@hasler.dhh>
INZTRUKT writes:
> But there is no gcl that apprears in the menu. I can see each file of the
> directory /usr/info that is relevant using info -f filename, but how can
> it be seen automatically and the relevant files are automatically visited
> for the package under study?
You need to create an entry in /usr/info/dir for gcl-si. Just edit
/usr/info/dir and use one of the existing entries as a model.
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