Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Bruno Haible]

Eli Zaretskii cited:
>     If FILENAME is an absolute file name, or begins with `./' or
>     `../', Info looks for FILENAME only in the directory of the
>     specified FILENAME, and adds the directory of FILENAME to the
>     value of `INFOPATH'.  In contrast, if FILENAME is in the form of a
>     relative file name, but without the `./' or `../' prefix, Info
>     will only look for it in the directories specified in `INFOPATH'.
>     In other words, Info does _not_ treat file names which lack `./'
>     and `../' prefix as relative to the current directory

'info' is the only program to treat pathnames this way. It therefore doesn't
matches the expectations of a normal user.

> > I would classify 1) and 3) as bugs.
>
> No, it's an intended feature.

Then, can you please provide another option which will take a FILENAME
and have 'info' use the specified FILENAME, also looking for FILENAME.info,
FILENAME.gz, FILENAME.info.gz, and *not* looking in other directories than
`dirname FILENAME` ? That would be handy.

Bruno