Missleading error message.

[Rene Treffer]

Hi,

I recently found out why info wasn't working on my System.
The error message was
"info: Cannot find node `Top'."
The reason
"/usr/share/dir.info.gz" was an vaild gzip file, but it didn't contain 
the data info needed.

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>   info --version

info (GNU texinfo) 4.7

Copyright (C) 2004 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.

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I can reproduce the error creating an empty gz file this way:
(don't forget to backup the original dir.info.gz file)

>    echo | gzip -9 > /usr/share/info/dir.info.gz
>    info info
info: Cannot find node `Top'.

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The errormessage should be a bit more precise...

BTW: I just removed /usr/share/info/dir.info.gz, does this have any bad 
influenze on my system? How could I reconstruct the file?