From:	Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: LFN problem with info ?
Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:20:54 +0100
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Richard Dawe a écrit :
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Maurice Lombardi wrote:
> > However if I try e.g.
> >   info info-stnd
> >   info info-stnd.info
> 
> Do you mean:
> 
> info -f info-stnd.info
> 
> > or even the DOS name-numeric tail version
> >   info INFO-ST~2.INF
> 
> info -f info-st~2.inf
> 

That's the point !
But in fact e.g.
  info gcc
works _without_ -f as any with file with less than 8 chars long filename
(it supposes that the name of the topic and the file name are the same).
Apparently using -f forces info to look through the file dir. to find
the corresponding filename, whereas it looks directly to gcc.inf or
gcc.info in the opposite case.
I read usually info files through rhide (which works perfectly) or
infview (for which the problems still remains). I stumbled into the
infview problem after installing those new versions, and tried the
simpler, older (but less usable: no mouse, strange key bindings !) info
standalone to see if the problem persists, forgetting the -f since I
did'nt used it for a long time. 
Now is it possible that the "natural" way of doing, the one which pops
out when everything is forgotten, be the right one, i.e. to imply -f as
a default ?
Thanks in any case

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       Maurice Lombardi
Laboratoire de  Spectrometrie Physique,
Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87
38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex     FRANCE
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