On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:37:52 -0400, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > ... I would change the texi2dvi script to use [A-Za-z]
> > > and submit a bug report to texinfo.
> > 
> > I think I will do so.  The thing is that the check is very much for
> > DOS file names so I don't actually care what that part of the regex is
> > doing!
> > 
> 
> M$ will get you one way or another :-)
> 
> BTW, if you do
> 
>      echo /foo | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
> 
> do you get the bad range end error message? If so, then your egrep
> is indeed stricter than mine.

I do indeed:

: egrep: Invalid range end.

Very strange.

> > > LC_ALL=C texi2dvi ...
> > 
> > but this may have unexpected side effects?  I'm not sure if any of the
> > latex suite use the locale...
> 
> Yeah, perhaps...

Interestingly, it *is* a locale issue:

: $ echo /foo | LC_ALL=C egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
: /foo

-- 
Eric S Fraga
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