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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:34:40 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> I wasn't thinking of the items in the menu, but the items in the
> sub-menus

There are no submenus in DIR, so I'm still in the dark.

> File \djgpp\info\gcc.i30:
> File \djgpp\info\gcc.i6:
> File \djgpp\info\gdb.i2:
> File \djgpp\info\bash.inf:
> File \djgpp\info\djgppfaq.inf:
> File \djgpp\info\gawk.inf:
> File \djgpp\info\gmp.inf:
> 
> In fact, maybe I should alias apropos to that anyhow :-)  info
> would still be grinding.

The above output is almost useless to Joe Random User, since Joe
cannot read `gcc.i30' directly, at least not as an Info document.

By contrast, the output of "info --apropos" immediately puts you at
the right place, and you can also search for subjects whose words are
separated by newlines, or even don't appear in the text at all.

However, Texinfo should be extended to build a database of index
entries, and then "info --apropos" can be made lightning fast.  It's
somewhere on my infinite TODO to make that happen...