Re: texinfo-4.0: Crashes on Red Hat 6.1 system

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Karl Berry wrote:

> I don't know what localdir's purpose is.

It's another name that can be used for (presumably locally installed) dir 
files.  The Info reader looks for `dir' and `localdir' in each directory 
mentioned in INFOPATH, and adds the menu in each one of them to the menu
it creates for the DIR node.  See the (commented-out ;-) section "Using 
localdir" in info-stnd.texi.