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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
- Subject: Re: KingFisher -- unable to save index
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.182744.13958@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:27:44 GMT
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- In article <BzqCCJ.7zB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- >jil@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Lathrop) writes:
- >
- >>In <Bzpyp4.3x0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- >
- >>>I just downloaded version 1.11. When I start it up, it tells me I need to
- >>>build the index, which I do. When I try to quit, though, it tells me
- >>>"unable to save index". What gives?
- >
- >>RTFM!! You have to change the config file to tell it what the name
- >>of the index file is.
- >
- >I did -- I went straight to the part in the manual that says,
- >
- > Q: When I quit, KingFisher says "Unable to update index (...)"
- > A: ...You need to Reindex BLA BLA BLA...
-
- Sigh. I forgot to add a Q&A section that mentions what to do when the name
- portion of that complaint is blank, i.e. "Unable to update index ()" -- in
- that case, KingFisher hasn't got a name for the name index. Version 1.1
- had a Readme file that specifically said you need to add a particular line
- to the .config file. I forgot that for 1.11 :(
-
- As to the question why I force the .config file into S: ... well, that's
- been changed. I think as of version 1.1 KingFisher will first look in the
- root directory, then in CONFIGS: then CONFIG: then CNF: and then S: --
- Thanks to Daniel Wicke <wicke@wpts0.physik.uni-wuppertal.de> who sent me
- some extracts from what the Style Guide says on the subject, I will make
- appropriate changes soon in order to conform more closely to the guide
- lines.
-
- ._. Udo Schuermann "If it's not one thing, then it's another"
- ( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu
-