Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:16:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hubert Toullec <htoullec AT mail DOT dotcom DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: info files
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On 29 Oct 1998, Hubert Toullec wrote:

> I noticed that some help files had .inf extensions, as others had .info.
> So, I renamed the textutils.info into textutils.inf, and the "info sort"
> worked perfectly !

The *real* solution is to change the info/DIR file so that it never
includes any extensions in the file names.  For example, change this
line:

   * sort: (textutils.inf)sort invocation.         Sort text files.

into this:

   * sort: (textutils)sort invocation.         Sort text files.

and it will work with both the original textutils.info and
textutils.inf alike.

DJGPP v2.02 will come with a DIR file that removes the extensions.

> So, it seems that file naming is not consistent among the several help
> files.

The inconsistency is between the file name and the DIR file.  DJGPP
v2.01 was released when Windows 9X was not so popular as today, and
people who used it generally knew the installation will need some
tweaking.

> Anybody has an explanation ?

Yea, sure: info.exe is told by DIR to look for textutils.inf, but a
file by that name doesn't exist.  So it fails.