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Perl contributions.



I was just wandering if anyone has any idea what Debian should include in
terms of pre-written CGI scripts. Any ideas are welcome. Everything from
simple search engines to web-based login scripts.

Best regards,

Bojan Zdravkovic

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gordon Matzigkeit [SMTP:gord@trick.fig.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 09, 1998 2:06 PM
> To:	debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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> Subject:	Differences between GNU and Debian install-info
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >>>>> Manoj Srivastava writes:
> 
>  MS> The GNU version takes the info files and installs them in the
>  MS> proper place, and tells the installer to edit the dir file
>  MS> manually.
> 
> That was an old version of install-info, back in the days when people
> were dreaming up the idea of such a program.  Karl Berry (texinfo
> maintainer) regrets the fact that this old version ever existed,
> because it caused mass confusion.
> 
>  MS>    Ours does not move files around (since the package maintainer
>  MS> has already done that, it just manages the dir file.
> 
> What GNU version are you looking at?  The install-info from
> texinfo-3.12 has exactly the same purpose as the Debian version:
> 
> 1) It doesn't move files around.  You run it on info files that are
> already copied into place.
> 
> 2) It edits the dir file, either adding or deleting entries.
> 
> The other differences are quite trivial, and can be discovered very
> easily if you try playing with both `/sbin/install-info' and
> `/usr/bin/install-info' on a recent Debian system.
> 
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