From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Feb 21 12:35:02 1999
Subject: info for octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Alon Shmueli <alon at medsim dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:33:30 -0600 (CST)

On 21-Feb-1999, Alon Shmueli <alon at medsim dot com> wrote:

| I've downloaded octave for Linux but I have problems with
| getting help on a topic (help -i <topic>).
| Do u know where I can find a compatible version of info
| that recognizes the flag '--index-search'
| 
| here are my specifications & a log of my problem:
| 
| My Linux version:
| 	Linux Pro 4.0, enhanced Red Hat Linux 3.0.3
| running 'octave --version':
| 	Octave, version 2.0.13 (i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1)
| running 'info --version':
| 	GNU Info, Version 2.14-p1, from texinfo-3.7.	
| running  'help -i <topic>' I get:
| 	info: unrecognized option `--index-search'
| 	Usage: info [-d dir-path] [-f info-file] [-o output-file] [-n node-name]...
|         	    [--directory dir-path] [--file info-file] [--node node-name]...
| 	            [--help] [--output output-file] [--subnodes] [--version]
|         	    [--dribble dribble-file] [--restore from-file]
| 	            [menu-selection ...]
| 	error: help: unable to find info!
| 	error: evaluating index expression near line 2, column 1

The current version of the GNU info reader that's included in the
texinfo-3.12 package supports the necessary features.  Sources for it
are available from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors.

jwe