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      2 texinfo/doc/README
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      4   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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      6   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
      7   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
      8   notice and this notice are preserved.
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     10 This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
     11 sources needed to process Texinfo sources.  We recommend using the
     12 texi2dvi included in this distribution to run a Texinfo manual through
     13 TeX to produce a DVI file.
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     15 The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
     16 vary so widely.  Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
     17 sense of security.  So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
     18 place.  If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
     19 standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
     20 TEXMF/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex, TEXMF/tex/generic/dvips/ for epsf.tex,
     21 and TEXMF/pdftex/plain/misc for pdfcolor.tex.  If you use the default
     22 installation paths, TEXMF will be /usr/local/share/texmf.  On systems
     23 with TeX preinstalled, as most GNU/Linux distributions offer, TEXMF
     24 will often be something like /usr/share/texmf.
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     26 It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
     27 of overwriting existing ones, but this is more complicated.  See your TeX
     28 documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information.
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     30 If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing
     31 ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the
     32 mktexlsr command.  In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R.
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     34 You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
     35 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors)
     36 ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors)
     37 or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex.
     38 If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check
     39 for a newer version.
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     41 epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it
     42 installed.  The version here is functionally identical but slightly
     43 nicer than the one in dvips574.  The changes have been sent to the
     44 epsf.tex maintainer.
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