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From: freese@dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com ("Bradley T. Freese")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Info won't recognize database
Message-ID: <9105142216.AA18391@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 14 May 91 21:50:41 GMT
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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.

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.