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Re: Fwd: Re: texinfo-4.0-3 (was RE: texinfo-4.0-2)
>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
Christopher> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:48:21AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> --- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >Oops! It is still not entirely correct as in a CMD box with INFOPATH
>>> >set to c:/emacs/info;c:/cygwin/usr/info;c:/usr/local/info, it skips the
>>> >first directory and processes the remaining two in reverse order.
>>>
>>> Don't use semicolons.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that is a workaround. IMO, info needs to determine it is being started
>> from a "CMD box" and convert INFOPATH into POSIX format or use ';' as a
>> separator.
Christopher> I don't see why. This is supposed to be a UNIX port. INFOPATH has no
Christopher> meaning to anything in Windows so there is no reason to use a Windows
Christopher> convention when processing the environment variable.
Right, and it works in a CMD box when using :
Christopher> cgf
Ciao
Volker