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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:41:14 +0200
From: Lennart Borgman <lennart DOT borgman DOT 073 AT student DOT lu DOT se>
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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: info bash - Bash Features: No such file or directory
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Eric Blake wrote:

>I don't know if you are reproducing the same problem as the OP, since the
>OP didn't exactly print what error message he was getting, but you
>certainly reproduced a problem.
>  
>
...

>This is probably because you've mounted / as textmode.  I don't know if it
>is a bug in info or in gunzip for not opening files in binary even when
>they live in a textmode directory, but if you would use a binary mount,
>your problem should go away.
>  
>
Probably it is the same problem though I did not see that message as far 
as I remember now. But I use text mode as default and I do not do any 
extra mounts.

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