On 2014-09-08 18:10:35 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Note that IIRC originally the pointer was:
> 
>   info touch
> 
> But that failed due to shortcomings in variously implemented
> install-info commands that I don't remember now.

There were actually several (Debian-specific?) problems with this form.

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483554

> Therefore this was changed to "info -f coreutils touch" IIRC and
> then later mutated again to "info coreutils 'touch invocation'" to
> get more canonical.
> 
> But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed.

If this is the following bug:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139569

it was fixed in Debian in September 2009. The simple form now seems
to be OK.

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