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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 14:21:25 -0300
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To: Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>
CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN problem with info ?
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Maurice Lombardi wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
> > In a nutshell, "info foo" instructs it to look for the *menu item*
> > `foo' in the file DIR, while "info -f foo" instructs it to look for a
> > *file* `foo' (with or without known Info extensions like .inf, .info,
> > etc.).
> >
> > So, "info gcc" works because the file DIR has a menu entry which
> > begins with "gcc", not because gcc.inf fits into DOS 8+3 limits.
> > And "info info-stnd" does NOT work because there's no menu entry in
> > DIR which begins with "info-stnd".  The menu entry for the stand-alone
> > Info reader is "Info-Standalone", so if you say "info info-stand" it
> > *will* work, regardless of whether the file name exceeds DOS 8+3
> > limits.
>
> OK you are right (of course you know !!!).
>
> So the only remaining question is for SET:

I got this mail accidentally, can you explain the problem.

> why infview is not able to load (longer than 8 name) files info-stnd.info or
> textutils.info even
> through the File/Open info file (F3) dialog, when this file is visible
> in the scroll box: in fact I just checked that it is neither able to
> open them from the DIR. file.

I need more information. I have files with LFNs in my system and I can load'm
without problems (editor.info.bz2 as example).

> Even stranger: fileutils.info works !
> To be sure I removed cleanly both with
>   cd \djgpp
>   rm -f @manifest\txt20b.mft
>   rm -f @manifest\fil316b.mft
> and reinstalled both with
>   unzip32 \installs\djgpp\txt20b.zip
>   unzip32 \installs\djgpp\fil316b.zip
> Name Numeric Tails are on, short names are
>   FILEUT~1.INF
>   TEXTUT~1.INF
> and infview reads fileutils.info but not textutils.info

An important detail: Which infview version? is textutils.info a file created
with texinfo 4.0? Only the last release handles a new feature introduced in
makeinfo 4.0 indirect tables.

SET

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