Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     'info' is the only program to treat pathnames this way.
>
> In the shell, if you type "foo", it will search along PATH for foo, not
> automatically and unchangeably look for ./foo; . is not treated specially.

But in the shell, if you type "dir/foo", it will _not_ search anywhere:
it will only look in dir/.

So I stand by the claim that 'info' is the only program to treat a pathname
'dir/foo' differently from './dir/foo', and that is confusing for the user.

Are people actually using subdirectories of elements of INFOPATH?
I never saw subdirectories of $prefix/info or $prefix/share/info. That
would mean that you could fix 3) without causing trouble to the users.

Bruno