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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex
From: Reuben Thomas <rrt AT sc3d DOT org>
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On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote:

> This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem:
>
> etex		pdfetex		language.def	-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini
>
> Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or
> (2) it should be arranged for "etex" in invoke pdfetex instead of etex.
> E.g., make "etex" a link to pdfetex, instead of its own binary.
>
> We do (2) for TeX Live.

Please could this fix be applied? I just ran into the same problem,
four years later, and I'm not the only one since then (I notice
another thread from 2007).

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