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> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:33:30 -0500
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
> 
> At 06:33 AM 3/13/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> <Snipped>
>  >The DSM file should run install-info with --section and --item
>  >options to produce the specific effect we want in DIR.
> 
> Hmm.  Could that produce a problem with the "From ???NNNb.zip" lines in 
> the new DIR I have suggested?  There is a lot of text, and usually 
> several tabs as well, in those category names.  How is that going to 
> work in a command-line option?

It will work if you enclose the category name in quotes, as you should
do with arguments with embedded whitespace.

> And another thought occurred to me.  For big packages like textutils 
> and shellutils and TeX, are we going to need an install-info invocation 
> for each separate utility entry in order to get them into the right 
> DJGPP DIR category?

Yes, if we want the same look as the one you suggested.