Re: .info files

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> What we're discussing is adding a .info extension to the info files
>> in Emacs (which apparently means .info-N extensions for multi-part
>> info files).
>
> Doing so is indeed incompatible with MS-DOS.

Yay.

I was going to say that I could add an INFO_EXT=.info to the Makefiles,
which MS-DOS could edit to empty, but since the info files are prebuilt
in the release tarfile, that doesn't help, unless you make a separate
MS-DOS tarfile.

IIUC, a general solution was suggested for this

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg01182.html

> But wasn't this discussion about visiting Info files in Info mode
> automatically? 

Not just about that. For aesthetic reasons, it's nice for an info file
to have an .info extension (IMO). Obviously it's not super important.