GMT_AUTO_DOWNLOAD off results in [ERROR]: Remote download is currently deactivated

Querying a remote data server is usually inappropriate so we do this:

GMT_AUTO_DOWNLOAD off

Thereafter, even this:

gmt grdinfo test.grd

raises this error:

grdinfo [ERROR]: Remote download is currently deactivated

which breaks scripts that don’t catch it.

Also, thinking about how often user scripts must be needlessly querying data servers, wouldn’t it be much better if
GMT_AUTO_DOWNLOAD was off by default?

I think there are two fixes needed here.

Mac. 6.1.1