Can't install a package in 3.1.53ff

Søren Hauberg soren at hauberg.org
Sun Mar 8 15:36:18 CDT 2009


søn, 08 03 2009 kl. 21:33 +0100, skrev Thomas Treichl:
> Hhhmmm, seems to be, I'll look inside of it. I just wonder why the command wants 
> to open/create/whatever a "DOC" directory, I would understand that there should 
> be accessed a "doc" (lower case letters) but this would mean that this is also 
> the the directory of the package documentation itself - do I understand this 
> correctly?

"DOC" is a file that contains the help texts of all the functions in the
package. This is used as a cache by 'lookfor' to speed things up (it
takes about a second or two to call 'lookfor' with this; in 3.0.x this
took about a minute).

Søren



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