From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 18 17:32:47 1999
Subject: When there is no help
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dirk Laurie <dirk at calvyn dot puk dot ac dot za>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:30:37 -0500 (CDT)

On 18-Oct-1999, Dirk Laurie <dirk at calvyn dot puk dot ac dot za> wrote:

| I'm running the packages
| 
| $ rpm -q octave info
| octave-2.0.14-1
| info-3.12f-4
| 
| on a RedHat 6.0 system.  When I try
| 
|  help -i something
| 
| and there is help available, everything is OK.
| When there is no help available, I get
| 
| no index entries found for `something'
| error: help: unable to find info
| error: help: you need info 2.18 or later (texinfo 3.12)
| error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1
| 
| The last three lines are a little confusing.

This should be fixed in the next release.

Thanks,

jwe



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