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On 09/01/2010 04:31 PM, René Berber wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release.
>
> Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many
> packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the
> full documentation in the info file(s), for instance read the last page
> of the sed man page.

I think she meant the info dir of the cygwin package (which was 
duplicated with cygwin-doc), and not the info dir of all packages.

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