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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: trouble with the info system and texinfo
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.160252.5103@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:02:52 GMT
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- I am so confused!!! I got the package gnus, and am trying to get it
- working, and so far none of the responses that I have received have
- contained the entire solution, they all leave something out! Thanks to
- everyone who replied to my last request for help, but I have never
- installed an emacs package on my system before, and I need more detail
- for beginners. Telling me to look at info is not helpful, it's like
- trying to drink the ocean! There's so much there, but it seems like
- you can't understand any of it until you've read all of it. Several
- people suggested I contact my system administrator, but that's me!
- None of the gurus here are into GNU emacs (hard to understand, but
- true!), so I'm on my own.
-
- OK, down to brass tacks. I'm going to attack this problem one step at
- a time. Right now, I need to know some stuff about the texinfo system.
- I unpacked the gnus files OK, and moved the info file to the right
- directory, opened it and ran the command texinfo-format-buffer, which
- seemed to work OK, and told me to save the results after a bunch of
- processing, which I did. Then I ended up with some kind of tag table
- in my buffer, but what good does that do me? What I want to know is
- this:
-
- 1 - what steps must I follow to get this new info file to be
- accessable from the info buffer that comes up when I invoke help (C-h)
- and select i for info? Is this the whole point of this excersize? Or
- is there another way I'm supposed to access the gnus info file?
-
- 2 - what steps need I follow to turn this into a printed manual?
-
- Thanks for the help!
-
- Ed Hartnett
-
- PS - please, no more messages like: you don't want a printed manual
- anyway. I got a bunch of these when I was trying to print the emacs
- manual. I DO want a printed manual. For one thing it's easier to get
- people here to try emacs if I can give them printed documentation. For
- another, I just like them better than on-line help.
- --
- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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