From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:16:54 +0100
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> Eli, would it be too intrusive to add a "special case" to the man clone 
> to check for "::" in the requested page name and automagically convert 
> it to "__"?  Maybe only if the file open fails, so as not to interrupt 
> normal operation?
Given that ':' is illegal in a name, there's no reason not to do the
substitution unconditionally (maybe man could always replace illegal
chars with _ (in case some man page is called 'foo*.1').