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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jonas Steverud wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> >   so, from within emacs, how can i open in info mode a specific
> > info file that i've downloaded from the net?
> 
> C-u C-h i

ok, i'll bite -- why does adding the "C-u" universal argument on the front
of "C-h i" cause this behavior?  it certainly isn't intuitive, at least
not to me.  should i have guessed this somehow?

rday