Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:45:28 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 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/.

That's because executable programs are all lumped into a single
directory, while Info's search provides for subdirectories.