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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:26:07 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BASH Info
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ralph Proctor wrote:
> 
> > Well, BASH includes ONLY the bash.1 file--no bash.inf file. So I cannot get
> > BASH Info to work
> 
> Bash doesn't have Info docs, only a man page (a very long one, btw).

It does, though; I have them on my Linux box.  (Investigating further) 
At least Bash 2.0 had the file `doc/bashref.{texi,info}' in the FSF
source dist.  I haven't a newer one handy.  It may be that the info docs
are incomplete or something, but I haven't seen any significant
differences between it and the man page.  It's a little tricky to
navigate though; the features of the shell are arranged into sections by
*origin* (features that came from traditional Bourne shell, features
from csh, features that GNU invented, etc).  This is troublesome for
anybody who hasn't used Unix for years and could know about all those. 
On my Linux box, Bash is the only shell I ever use.

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Nate Eldredge
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