Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:42:53 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> Would it be similarly easy to change man to support the mapping "::"
> -> "/"?

No, this is not simple.  `man' looks for suitable files by calling
readdir and fnmatch (since there's no portable way to get files which
match a wildcard directly from the file system).  Mapping to "/" will
thus require additional recursion(s) into the subdirectories.  So this
is not a simple string manipulation problem, it's a non-trivial change
in program's control flow.

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