Hi Karl!
On Son, 29 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> 234848 info ./jdfsdofs starts with man page of top, instead of the Top
> node
>
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> If you supply a filename on the cmdline which does not exists, then the
> man page of top is shown, instead of showing the Top node in dir.
>
> Maybe this can be handled also via error handling in the spirit of the
> stuff said in the previous bug report!
>
> It seems someone (maybe me :) actually fixed this at one point, and I
> forgot about it. When I run info ./foobar now, I get the dir node and a
> message "no item ./foobar" in menu.
>
> This is in CVS, post-4.8.
Strange. 3min ago I did:
$ cvs update
$ ./bootstrap
...
$ ./configure CFLAGS=-g --enable-maintainer-mode
...
$ make
...
$ info/ginfo --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.8
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You may redistribute copies of GNU texinfo
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
$ info/ginfo ./notexistingfile
and I landed at the manpage of top
What is wrong here???
Best wishes
Norbert
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