Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:56:53 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 16:36:59 +0100
> 
> I tried config.foo. No luck. It will find config.guess.1 in man/cat1, but
> it claims it's the page for 'config' in section 'guess.1' if man -l is used.

You are right: it finds config.guess if you say "man config", but not
if you say "man config.guess".

> Oh, and while we're on the topic of man pages, how would you treat
> Perl's man pages (eg Foo::Bar.3). These are extremely invalid names
> on dos.

What?  Perl finally got man pages??  It doesn't use *.pod files
anymore???  Blasphemy! ;-)

> I'd suggest that man changes '::' in a man page to a '/', so
> the man pages can be in subdirs (eg man/cat3/Foo/Bar.3).

I don't think `man' should dictate to the ported Perl how to rename
these files in the DJGPP port.

How are these files called in the distributions of DOS and Windows
ports (`:' is invalid on Windows as well)?