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From: leonwood AT mbox DOT kyoto-inet DOT or DOT jp (Leon B. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: INF, TXI, TEX and DVI files
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 01:46:30 GMT
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Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De> wrote:

>- The .INF represents a file readable with inf.exe
>- .TEX is a (La)TeX source file, a kind of a word processor like
>  Word6.0, just more reliable and usuable on nearly every platform,
>  apart from maybe the Sinclair ZX-20 (although, you never know)
>- .DVI is DeVice Independent format, produced by (La)TeX, can be
>  turned to printable format by dvips or alikes,
>- .TXI is more or less the source file you work on, you can 
>  convert it to printable output or into a .INF file. So you can
>  produce a printed documentation and an on-line help with one source
>  file

Thank you for the explanation.  I have INFO.EXE for reading INF files,
and MAKEINFO.EXE which can convert TXI into INF.  If confronted with
one of the other two formats, are there utilities that can convert
them into INF or TXI format?

Leon

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