Neal> On linux boxes there is often a "dir" file, but it's not always Neal> up-to-date. It would be nice to have a custom variable that says to Neal> ignore the dir file. Neal> I see that custom does have something like this, but it Neal> doesn't really work. When I view info in the system dir Neal> /usr/share/info, I need to delete the dir file and restart Neal> xemacs to see all the files, despite the fact that: Neal> Auto Generate Directory: * [Value Menu] always Hi Neal, what did you say your XEmacs version was? Please use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. If XEmacs does not build or start up, please send any version and configuration information you have to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org with any mailer as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, please don't send HTML mail). On linux type ulimit -c unlimited in the shell before starting XEmacs from it, else you might not get a core file. In XEmacs 21.5-b8 the default for Info-auto-generate-directory is 'if-outdated and it works well for me in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta8) \"broccoli\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Tue Aug 13 2002 on D5DC120J" Hope this helps, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/