Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:08:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: LFN problem with info ?
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Maurice Lombardi wrote:

> Even stranger: fileutils.info works !

So this is not a problem with long file names, even for InfView.

> The only difference I see is that during the remove rm -f complains
>   c:/djgpp/bin/rm: man: is a directory
>   c:/djgpp/bin/rm: man/cat1: is a directory
> for txt20b.mft and nothing for fil316b.mft
> but this is a defect of the txt20b.mft file which contains indeed two
> spurious lines man/ and man/cat1

This is not a defect in txt20b.mft, it includes those directories on 
purpose (so they are created when you unzip the package).  The warning
from `rm' is harmless: it indeed should *not* remove directories when 
you uninstall a package.