On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Richard Y. Kim wrote:
> I would like a command-line option to control the size of split info
> files. As I recall, makeinfo splits up info files into 50k byte
> chunks. This number goes back to emacs 18 in 1980's! I would like to
> split up the files, but in bigger chunks, say 200k bytes.
How about adding this feature and submitting the diffs? That's the
best way of making sure the feature will be there in the next release.
> The reason is that my info directory now has more than 500 info
> files. All of them are compressed with gzip so that majority of them
> are less than 15 kbytes. I would like each of the files to be bigger
> so that there are less files to deal with.
If you compress all the Info files, it is best to generate them with
"--nosplit", as a temporary work-around. Unless you also have a
memory-starved machine, that is.
