From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ".inf" vs ".info" in djdev201.zip "info/dir" file Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:05:52 GMT Message-ID: <35e0c4a8.13031195@news1.banet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.100.253.77 Organization: IBM.NET Lines: 29 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: >There's no discrepancy. Info should cope with any of these names. If >it doesn't please describe the specific case where it fails. OK, try "flex.inf" in the djdev201 "dir" file. After flex (from flx254b.zip) installs "flex.info", pressing enter when at the "Flex: (flex.inf)." line gives the error message "flex.inf: No such file or directory (ENOENT)". Ditto for gawk.inf and the others I mentioned (particularly the multi-utility packages like textutils, fileutils and sh-utils). Same error message, with (ENOENT) as the error code. It seems as if when the "dir" file *specifies* the extension as ".inf", it cannot find it when the actual file name is ".info". Maybe the filenames should all be entered *without* extensions? Would info find them then? Answer: Yes. Tested with flex 2.5.4 and textutils 1.22 and texinfo 3.9 [GNU Info (Texinfo 3.9) 2.16]. Maybe because the 8.3 name of, for example, "flex.info" under Win95 LFN conventions is "flex~1.inf", which does not match "flex.inf"? Just a guess on my part. ---------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR pjfarley AT nospam DOT banet DOT net)