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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: termcap data base not found
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:32:02 +0200
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> > The command is "install-info", but it cannot automatically loop on all
> > Info files you have; you need to invoke it separately for every such
> > file.
> 
> Try something like (in MS command not GNU bash)
> for %f in (*.info) do install-info %f

Close, but not quite there yet.

First, FOR doesn't support long file names, unless you say "LFNFOR ON" 
before it.  And second, some Info files don't have the ".info" extension, 
so the above misses them.

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