Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:27:09 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 'info' is the only program to treat pathnames this way. It therefore doesn't
> matches the expectations of a normal user.

Karl explained the logic behind this.  In any case, Info has been
doing this since day one, so I think it's a bit too late to change
that.

> 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.

You have such an option now: just specify FILENAME as either an
absolute file name or one that begins with "./" or "../".