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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:39:44 -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, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> DJGPP's port is version 1.14.7.

Oh, of course.  Probably a lot of it is applicable, however.

> > It's a little tricky to
> > navigate though; the features of the shell are arranged into sections by
> > *origin*
> 
> Use `i', as usual.  The order is only important if you read the entire
> manual, or large portions thereof.

Right.

> > (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.
> 
> It might be a good idea to point this out to the GNU maintainer.  Both
> DJGPP and Cygwin32 have Bash ports, so the assumption of a
> Unix-entrenched user is no longer valid.

Ok, I'll do that.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com