Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 18:44:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: Mark T Logan <fwec AT juno DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, stockton AT bcm DOT tmc DOT edu
Subject: Re: Accessing newly installed info pages?
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

>   There are an utility to add the info files to the dir file, I saw it under 
> Linux. I don't remmember the name and if the program was ported to
> DJGPP.

It's called `install-info', is part of the Texinfo distribution
(beginning with version 3.9) and was ported to DJGPP with the rest of
Texinfo programs.

However, currently, you cannot rely on this program to update info/dir
for two grave reasons:

	1) Some GNU packages which didn't yet convert to the latest
standards (M4 is one of them) don't have a special dir entry inside
the main .info file that is required for `install-info' to work.

	2) By a sad omission, txi390b.zip on SimTel mirrors only
includes a ``symlink'' to `install-info.exe' (called `instinfo.exe'),
but the *real* program is missing.  If you need the program, you will
have to download the source distribution txi390s.zip and build it from
sources.  It compiles right out of the box with DJGPP (but please be
sure to read the README.djgpp file before you begin to compile).


For these two reasons, I've decided to tell people to update their
info/dir files manually, since it's not that hard.