info segmentation fault

[David Forrest]

Dear Sir or Madam,
  with the attached file stored in /usr/local/info/dir, info segmentation
faulted repeatedly.

I realize that this file may be in a bad format, but it caused me to curse
'info' for a long time.  Repeated installs and recompiles did not fix the
problem, since the /usr/local/info/* was not part of the clean and
reinstall cycle.  I did not guess that a defective dir file would break
the program, and would have rather had it ignore and warn rather than just
die.  I figured it out after I found that

info --version #worked
info --help    #worked
info -f /usr/info/info.info # worked
# and with the '?' command I found the INFOPATH and started checking its
members

address@hidden info]$ info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.0b

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.


Thanks for the program,

Dave,
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 Dave Forrest                                   address@hidden
 (434)296-7283h 924-3954w      http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/

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