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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 16:19:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: Restructured dir.txi -- please review and comment
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"Peter J. Farley III" wrote:
> At 01:29 PM 3/3/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>  >
... snip ...
>  >
>  >Did you ever try "info --apropos SUBJECT"?  It's a bit slow, but
>  >that's the way you are supposed to look for solutions to problems for
>  >which you don't know what packages deal with them.
> 
> I never used --apropos before.  So I just tried it, to see if it would
> find the textutil "cut" program.  I used the phrases "cutting text",
> "deleting text" and "selecting text".  You are right, it is somewhat
> slow, but it also fails to find "cut" for any of those phrases:

I just tried that command and info just exits.  Don't know what it
said, because I have info start up in a new window through a .pif

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