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This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
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sources needed to process Texinfo sources. We recommend using the
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texi2dvi included in the distribution to run a Texinfo manual through
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TeX to produce a DVI file.
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The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
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vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
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sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
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place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
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standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
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<texmf>/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and <texmf>/tex/plain/dvips/ for
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epsf.tex. If you use the default installation paths, <texmf> will be
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/usr/local/share/texmf. On systems with TeX preinstalled, as most
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GNU/Linux distributions offer, <texmf> will often be something like
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/usr/share/texmf.
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It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
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of overwriting existing ones, but it is more complicated. See your TeX
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documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information.
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If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing
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ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the
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mktexlsr command. In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R.
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You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors)
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ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors)
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or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex.
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If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check
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for a newer version.
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epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it
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installed. The version here is functionally identical but slightly
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nicer than the one in dvips574. The changes have been sent to the
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epsf.tex maintainer.
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