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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:01:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: problem building kb.info in current CVS version
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On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> makeinfo --no-split kb.txi
> ./wc203.txi:509: Unmatched }.

Ouch!  That's my fault.  Patch attached (I checked it in today).

Sorry.

> However I didn't notice anything bad easily.

The problem with this bug is that you don't see it easily.  I needed to 
read the offending line 3 times before I saw it.  I almost decided it was 
some obscure makeinfo bug.

*** src/docs/kb/wc203.txi.~48~	Wed Aug 25 12:23:19 1999
--- src/docs/kb/wc203.txi	Sun Aug 29 14:55:51 1999
***************
*** 506,512 ****
  source and the target of the link were in the same directory, when in
  fact they weren't.  This bug is now fixed.
  
! @pindex djtar@{, and the }@file{tarchange.lst}@r{ file}
  @code{djtar} now creates the file @file{tarchange.lst} only if it
  actually needs to rename some of the files during unpacking.  In
  particular, simply listing the contents of an archive, as in @samp{djtar
--- 506,512 ----
  source and the target of the link were in the same directory, when in
  fact they weren't.  This bug is now fixed.
  
! @pindex djtar AT r{, and the }@file{tarchange.lst}@r{ file}
  @code{djtar} now creates the file @file{tarchange.lst} only if it
  actually needs to rename some of the files during unpacking.  In
  particular, simply listing the contents of an archive, as in @samp{djtar

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