From: gonzo AT bedlam DOT rahul DOT net (Cryptic Dancer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: add info nodes?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 04:19:26 GMT
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On Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:11:13 -0800,
in newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp,
message <33446341 DOT 427F AT geocities DOT com>,
<bifurcate AT geocities DOT com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>
>Given info files on a topic, how do you modify the file 'dir' in
>
>/djgpp/info to recognize them? Or is there another file I should change?
>

  Hello.

  texinfo-3.9 has in it a program named `install-info'.

  Here is a bit of the post-istall for texinfo-3.9:

        $(POST_INSTALL)
        ./util/install-info --info-dir=$(infodir) $(infodir)/texinfo


  The texinfo-3.9 distribution supplies a "starter" `dir' file as follows: 

--------------------------- quote -------------------------------
$Id: dir,v 1.2 1996/09/24 18:43:01 karl Exp $
This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the
Info hierarchy.  The first time you invoke Info you start off
looking at that node, which is (dir)Top.
^_
File: dir       Node: Top       This is the top of the INFO tree

  This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
  Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here,
  "h" gives a primer for first-timers,
  "mEmacs<Return>" visits the Emacs topic, etc.

  In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference
  to select it.

* Menu:
--------------------------- unquote -------------------------------

  If in the texinfo build directory (i.e., without actualy doing the `make
install')  I now execute the command line

	$ ./util/install-info --info-dir=`pwd` texinfo
  
the starter `dir' file gets changed into this:

--------------------------- quote -------------------------------
$Id: dir,v 1.2 1996/09/24 18:43:01 karl Exp $
This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the
Info hierarchy.  The first time you invoke Info you start off
looking at that node, which is (dir)Top.
^_
File: dir       Node: Top       This is the top of the INFO tree

  This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
  Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here,
  "h" gives a primer for first-timers,
  "mEmacs<Return>" visits the Emacs topic, etc.

  In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference
  to select it.

* Menu:

Texinfo documentation system
* Texinfo: (texinfo).           The GNU documentation format.
* install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Updating info/dir entries.
* texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi.      Printing Texinfo 
documentation.
* texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex.  Sorting Texinfo index 
files.
--------------------- unquote --------------------------------------

  (I have not found any documentation for install-info.)
  
  Bill