From:	bukinm AT inp DOT nsk DOT su (Michael Bukin)
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Subject:	Re: info dir rebuilder
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:15:44 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:55:42 GMT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Danny van Bruggen wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody know of a utility that will rebuild the dir-file in the
> > info-directory? If it doesn't exist, I will make it. Before anyone
> 	3) There are two ready tools to do what you want:
> 
> 	   - The `makeinfo' program generates `dir' from a Texinfo
> 	     source which goes by the name `dir.txi'.
> 	   - The `install-info' program updates `dir' using a special
> 	     entry at the beginning of the Info file which comes with
> 	     a package.

  There is also sh script in texinfo sources which produce
dir file for files in given directory. It is called `gen-dir-node'
and can be found in `util' directory in txi390s.zip
  But it needs sh-compatible shell and a lot of other utilities,
like sed, awk, grep, etc.

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