X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020314093502.029f3ec0@mail.dorsai.org> X-Sender: pjfarley AT mail DOT dorsai DOT org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:38:22 -0500 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com From: "Peter J. Farley III" Subject: Re: Simpler restructured dir.txi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Per DJ's request, I'm sending this reply to the list again. Apparently, it accidentally got caught by his anti-spam filter the first time. No need to reply again. At 07:11 PM 3/13/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >It will work if you enclose the category name in quotes, as you should >do with arguments with embedded whitespace. OK, understood. >> 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. Ugh. We're going to need a little automation to match up the programs and categories as the DIR file is maintained and expanded. If you don't object to gawk code, I could whip up an extractor program to read the DIR file and output a new file with program name, tab, category (or any other format that seems workable). This new file could than be sorted and the result file read by zippo to construct the install-info line from the program name. Or should zippo read the DIR file itself? --------------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)