Re: texinfo CVS & DJGPP: info & spurious error message about ~/_info?

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>     I made Info not complain on DOS when _info is not there.
> 
> There's no reason to make this dos-specific ... Info should not complain
> at all when .info (aka _info) is missing.  I've noticed it myself, but
> it just never seemed important enough to look into.
> 
> Jose or Brian, maybe you'd like to look at this :).

The error message is displayed by the call to info_error at infomap.c:1498 (in
fetch_user_maps). I'm using texinfo CVS as of yesterday afternoon (GMT).

>     > If I run info from any line other than the first line of the command
>     > prompt, I do not see the error message.
> 
> Maybe it just disappears too quickly?

Yes, quite possibly.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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