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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:29:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: setting INFOPATH
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Some questions about info:

% info --version
info (GNU texinfo 3.12) 2.18

[1] It appears that INFOPATH must be a semicolon-separated directory
list; a colon-delimited list does not work---even in bash, even with
PATH_SEPARATOR=:

INFOPATH='.;/gnuplot;/nasm/docs'	works

INFOPATH='.:/gnuplot:/nasm/docs'	does not work
(info starts, but /gnuplot/gnuplot.inf is not found)

Would/should/could I expect that a colon-delimited INFOPATH is
somehow/someday possible?

[2] If I add a terminal `;' as suggested in the Texinfo documentation
(the default path is supposed to be appended), then info complains that
it cannot find the top-level dir file.

export INFOPATH='.;/gnuplot;/nasm/docs'		works

export INFOPATH='.;/gnuplot;/nasm/docs;'	does not work
% info gnuplot
info: dir: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

TIA---jtw