Fwd: Re: texinfo-4.0-3 (was RE: texinfo-4.0-2)

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

I don't see why.  This is supposed to be a UNIX port.  INFOPATH has no
meaning to anything in Windows so there is no reason to use a Windows
convention when processing the environment variable.

cgf