Yoshiki> Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Yoshiki> I don't think DIR, dir.info and DIR.info are necessary. Yoshiki> Judging from the source code, standalone info reader Yoshiki> searches dir, dir.[gz|bz2|z|Z|Y] and localdir. I don't know about the .info variants, but the uppercase versions are presumably an attempt to make sure this works on MS-DOS based systems. The FSF generally takes the attitude that catering to DOS-isms isn't worth their while; we generally claim that we want to go the extra 20% necessary to make things "just work" for supported systems. True, I suppose we don't "support" DOS in any sense of the word, but such case issues probably will show up on Windows NT/9x systems occasionally, especially in older packages. As usual, it would seem to be the case that we should be strict in what we produce, lenient in what we accept. A middle ground would be to "obsolete" the uppercase variants, and warn the user that "DIR is obsolete[1] and support for the uppercase name may be removed in the future. If you need this feature, please let xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org know. Also let us (and the maintainer of the package) know if the package that supplied the file DIR uses uppercase intentionally." Footnotes: [1] No, Michael, I don't mean there should be no dir files at all. I'm agnostic on that. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."