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From: bfox@aurel.caltech.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: makeinfo?
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Date: 21 Jun 89 23:01:46 GMT
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   Date: 19 Jun 89 18:05:14 GMT
   From: mailrus!umich!sharkey!oxtrap!rich@rutgers.edu  (K. Richard Magill)
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   What's a makeinfo?  and how do I format the info pages?  M-x
   texinfo-format-buffer doesn't do it.
   --
   rich.

I'm sorry I didn't answer this right away, it got lost in old mail.

`makeinfo' is the standalone texinfo->info formatter written in C.  This
program has a companion, `info' which is (yup, you guessed it) the
standalone info reader written in C.

The manual (such as it is) will be formattable by both M-x
texinfo-format-buffer and makeinfo in release 1.00.

makeinfo.c and info.c are not yet available from prep, which is an
oversight on the part of myself and others.  In less than a month it
will be available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu.

Brian Fox