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From: david@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (David Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Info won't recognize database
Keywords: infoexplorer, CDROM
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.220720@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:07:20 GMT
References: <41921@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <41921@netnews.upenn.edu>, massa@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.

Previous versions of the CD had extra characters at the end of the file names.
Are you certain that the database files (as defined in
/usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths)
are correctly named?
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