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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:57:11 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrong file name for info files.
Message-ID:  <199710100857.SAA07101@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> This may be a bug in makeinfo.  I use output file "-" (stdout) to
>> avoid an intermediate file in the gzip pipeline, and makeinfo produces:
>
>The bug is documented:
>
>$ makeinfo --help
>`--output FILE' or `-o FILE'
>                      to specify the output file.  When you specify the
>                      output file in this way, any `@setfilename' in the
>                      input file is ignored.

The help message in the version in -current (1.67) is less verbose,
and makeinfo.info only says that the output goes to FILE and not to the
file name specified by @setfilename.

Bruce



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