Re: Core Utils Documentation

[The Wanderer]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Gadrin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Help! I need core util docs ! :)
> >
> > I just tried to visit this page and use the 
> > http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html and the "coreutils" link and
> > it takes me to another page and I tried the "HTML on one page" it
> > keeps expanding the URL until it looks like:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils/html_mono/html_mono/html_mono/html_mono/html_mono/coreutils.html
> >
> > and keeps going and going....
> >
> > I tried it in both MSIE and Firefox.
>
> I could not reproduce the problem with the Mozilla 1.7 bundled with
> Solaris 10 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7)
> Gecko/20060627).  It properly resolved the link to:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html
>
> and I was able to read this.

I likewise, with a version of Mozilla either compiled from source or
obtained via Debian (listed in the About page as Mozilla 1.7.12
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922),
failed to reproduce the problem by simply following links from
http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html as described - but, if I go to any
version of the given problematic URL (the simplest form I've checked
being
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils/html_mono/coreutils.html),
then the link simply recurses as described. I'm not sure that that's
worth fixing, because there is or should be no way to get to a URL of
that form - i.e., with the extra "coreutils/" in it - via links from
elsewhere on the site, but the behaviour does appear to exist
nonetheless.

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