[tex-live] searching help for files w/o documentation

[Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

 > Well, instead of restricting to a certain extension (maybe there are
 > files without an extension...),

I would be happy to include the null extension, to allow
files such as AAAREADME to be displayed ...

 > it would make more sense IMHO to check
 > whether the contents of the file is binary or text, only adding the
 > latter to the list of choices.

Why not offer binaries ?  Documentation might be in PDF, Word, PostScript,
DVI, or who-knows-what : so long as one doesn't launch executables or
scripts, why not allow anything else ?

** Phil.