On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> > Don't want to disappoint people, but I found at least one info page that
> > is not properly displayed by pinfo, namely, the cvs info page.  To
> > reproduce, "pinfo cvs" and follow the "Index" link.  Then search for
> > "cvsrc".  The link "~/.cvsrc" does not appear as a link in pinfo (but does
> > in info).
>
> > I'm usually the first to recommend pinfo, so please consider this a bug
> > report.
>
> I can reproduce this, and it looks like pinfo does the same the same on linux.
> I'll try to figure out why, I bet it's the ~ that confuses pinfo.

Yes, it seems a "~" or a ":" in the node name confuses pinfo.  To say
something for it, a ":" in the node name confuses info too, so I have a
feeling that that, at least, might be a bug in the cvs info page...
        Igor
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