From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200101021925.UAA28994@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
In-Reply-To: <1190-Tue02Jan2001210927+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jan 2, 2001 09:09:27 pm"
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:25:49 +0100 (MET)
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
> > 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 "__"?
> 
> It's not hard.  `man' already does some extra-special hacks to support
> 8+3 filesystem seamlessly (did you ask yourself what happens when you
> type "man install-info" on DOS? wildcard expansion doesn't truncate
> the name to 8+3, you know, so how does `man' find `install-.1'?..)

Would it be similarly easy to change man to support the mapping "::"
-> "/"? The reason I ask is because perl modules which contain "::" is
mapped to "/". E. g. the perl module Math::Bigfloat.pm is stored in
Math/Bigfloat.pm and you say you're going to use it with the perl code
"use Math::Bigfloat;". So there is already a mapping "::" -> "/" used
in perl.


Right,

						MartinS