Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:2076
From: Broeker AT axp03 DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: INF, TXI, TEX and DVI files
Date: 22 Mar 96 14:41:05 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <Broeker.827505665@axp03>
References: <314dfb8a DOT 470542 AT news DOT kyoto-inet DOT or DOT jp> <314E9347 DOT 41C6 AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
NNTP-Posting-Host: axp03.physik.rwth-aachen.de
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De> writes:

>- 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)

A note: sometimes, you'll find files called *.tex, but they're really
*.txi files, i.e.  texinfo sources.  The reason for this is that the
original filename extension for texinfo sources ist .texinfo, but under
DOS, you have to abbreviate that, and some people chose .tex instead of
the more recognizable .txi. 

>- .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

For more details on that, call 'info texi' or grep the FAQ for
'texinfo'. 

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)