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

[Brian J. Fox]

   Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:19:58 -0500
   From: Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

       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

   Right, I knew that part, sorry I wasn't clear.  The question is, why was
   localdir invented?  Why should localdir be read as well as dir?

   There's a note in the ChangeLog that says:

       Mon Jan 25 10:59:49 1993  Brian Fox  (bfox@cubit)
               * info/dir.c: New file implements Gillespies `localdir' hacks.

   Which is less than illuminating.  In the absence of any compelling
   arguments to the contrary, I don't see any reason to keep supporting
   localdir ... Brian, are you there?

Yeah, I'm here.  What's the compelling reason to remove a feature that
exists in Emacs Info?

Brian
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