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> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:28:29 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> Now that I've used install-info, I agree that zippo could do this
> automatically for files with filenames of the form info/*.info and
> info/*.inf. My concerns are:
> 
> * How do you know info/*.inf is an info file and not, for example, a
> Windows .inf file?

A file from the DJGPP .zip file should not be a Windows .inf file.

You can also search it for telltale signatures that every Info file
has.

> [ Incidentally, is there a port of the 'file' program ]
> [ (available on Linux) to DJGPP?                      ]

No, and the problem is not the program, but its data base of magic
numbers/strings.  Someone needs to craft that.

> Personally I think that supporting 'post-install-script' is the best plan.

I can only say that it is very annoying to type the same (quite long)
command line for install-info each time I prepare a DSM.