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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 21:45:37 -0400
Message-Id: <199704090145.VAA19497@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in
CC: crough45 AT amc DOT de, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970408230646.5963A-100000@aditya.unigoa.ernet.in>
(grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in)
Subject: Re: A Suggestion.

> oh my god! no! i meant to use texinfo which converts texi to inf format. 
> if getting the documentation implied building the package, i would 
> certainly never have suggested that. obviously, this is not one of my 
> articulate periods. 

Here's a very good reason not to expect the users to be able to do
this.  The command is MAKEINFO, not texinfo.  You also need to give it
the right switches sometimes, which is usually handled by the
Makefile.

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