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Re: define Info's "dir"?
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Mike Ballard |
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Re: define Info's "dir"? |
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Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:07:56 GMT |
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On Fri Apr 30, Eli Zaretskii disturbed my nap when he said:
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > From: Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:16:48 GMT
> >
> > I use gentoo. For some (to me, inexplicable) reason the gentoo folks have
> > decided to have emerge (the tool for installing new sources) search for
> > "dir" files and in some cases rename them to dir.old.
>
> Well, if you rename `dir' into `dir.info', will emerge leave it alone?
> If it will, you have your solution, I think.
>
Thanks - "dir.info" is apparently not detected and therefore left
untouched by emerge. I didn't know that was a valid name - thanks for the
help...
Mike
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