Re: problem using install-info with tar.info

[Gavin Smith]

On 31 October 2015 at 23:30, Alan Wehmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Neither tar-a.info nor tar-b.info cause an error.  I attach tar-c.info.  It
> causes the error on multiple tries, with or without the presence of a dir
> file.
>
> I created tar-c.info by copying tar-a.info and adding to it the three lines
> from tar-b.info.
>
> I also attach tar-d.info.  It is like tar-c.info in having the two entries,
> but inverted.  It does not cause an error, on multiple tries, with or
> without the dir file present.  The dir file is written with the two entries
> inverted from what is in tar-d.info.  I attach the dir file resulting from
> "install-info --debug tar-d.info dir" to illustrate.

And neither of those files work for me, probably because they have
MS-DOS line endings. It's possible they've been mangled at some point
in the transmission of the email.

When I fix the line endings, both files work, and give the same output
(inverted for one of them, as you said).

I probably can't fix this if I can't replicate it.