Ah! Done. I did cd /usr/share/info cp coreutils.info.gz /home/sean/coreutils.info.gz cd ll [...] gunzip coreutils.info.gz sudo su - [nope] emacs /usr/share/info/dir C-x 2 C-x C-f /home/sean/coreutils.info and copied the coreutils.info entry into dir. Long way or wrong way? -- Sean