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Re: INFO on add-ons
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:43:11 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management, i686-pc-linux) |
>>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
rms> I believe GNU has its own install-info program which was
rms> written initially by me.
I first encountered install-info around 1996 (the man page is dated
1994) as a Perl script written by Ian Jackson, as I wrote earlier. On
several occasions I have built texinfo from scratch, which invariably
broke dpkg, so I had to move the GNU version of install-info out of
the way. A quick look at the Info page for GNU install-info and the
man page for Debian install-info suggests they have further diverged.
:-(
Usually Debian is very careful to respect the upstream sources and
practices, so I jumped to the conclusion that GNU recognized a good
thing when it saw it, and decided to provide the same capability to
all Info users and admins.
I'm sorry if I provided misinformation about the origin of the utility.
--
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University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
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have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py
- Re: INFO on add-ons, (continued)
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/02
- "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Henrik Enberg, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03