From:	pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject:	Re: ".inf" vs ".info" in djdev201.zip "info/dir" file
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:05:52 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>There's no discrepancy.  Info should cope with any of these names.  If
>it doesn't please describe the specific case where it fails.

OK, try "flex.inf" in the djdev201 "dir" file.  After flex (from
flx254b.zip) installs "flex.info", pressing enter when at the "Flex:
(flex.inf)." line gives the error message "flex.inf: No such file or
directory (ENOENT)".

Ditto for gawk.inf and the others I mentioned (particularly the
multi-utility packages like textutils, fileutils and sh-utils).  Same
error message, with (ENOENT) as the error code.

It seems as if when the "dir" file *specifies* the extension as
".inf", it cannot find it when the actual file name is ".info".  Maybe
the filenames should all be entered *without* extensions?  Would info
find them then?

Answer: Yes.  Tested with flex 2.5.4 and textutils 1.22 and texinfo
3.9 [GNU Info (Texinfo 3.9) 2.16].

Maybe because the 8.3 name of, for example, "flex.info" under Win95
LFN conventions is "flex~1.inf", which does not match "flex.inf"?
Just a guess on my part.

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