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Re: easy install and man-like behavior
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: easy install and man-like behavior |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:29:20 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, I wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, W. L. Estes wrote:
>
> > > - `cp foo.info /usr/local/info; info foo' should work.
> > > This means that `info foo' should find `foo' even if it's not in any
> > > `dir' file (just like the whatis database is not needed for man to find
> > > the manpage).
> >
> > I agree that this is a good feature, possibly even additionally
> > using an environment variable INFO_PATH, with info looking in
> > each of those directories.
Sorry, wrong attribution. Please disregard this message. I sent another
one with corrected quotations.
Re: easy install and man-like behavior, Jorgen Schaefer, 2000/12/12