Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:40:28 +0200 (EET)
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I don't think there was ever a version of makeinfo that would drop all
> but the last of identical index entries.  All the versions I ever used
> (from 3.1 and up) always added an "<n>" string to such entries, but
> kept them all.

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/texinfo/texinfo_141.html (5 years old,
for version 3.12) clearly says otherwise.  Of course, that may have been
a documentation bug.

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Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/