Re: ^M in the info files

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've just found that the file "efaq" contains null-bytes
>> ('\0') after "Concept Index\n********\n\n".  "viper" also
>> contains null-bytes.

Stefan> Why is that?  Isn't it an error in those files?

There are *many* such examples in my info directory.  230 out of 856
files in my /usr/share/info have them.  It looks like all of them
have one or more instances of the line (in cat --show-all syntax):

address@hidden@^H]$

In the case of faq.texi it is from the code:

@node Concept index,  , Mail and news, Top
@unnumbered Concept Index
@printindex cp

@contents

I have texinfo-4.12 installed, but some of the relevant files date back
as far as 2004/August, so it isn't just a recent thing.

>From my most recent compile of emacs, it affects:

emacs-mime.info.bz2
gnus-5.info.bz2
message.info.bz2
pgg.info.bz2
sasl.info.bz2
sieve.info.bz2

-JimC
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