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This is texinfo.info, produced by texi2any version 6.1 from
texinfo.texi.
This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.1, 6 February 2016), a
documentation system that can produce both online information and a
printed manual from a single source using semantic markup.
Copyright (C) 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999, 2001, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
being "A GNU Manual", and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License".
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and
modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
INFO-DIR-SECTION Texinfo documentation system
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format.
* install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Update info/dir entries.
* makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking makeinfo. Translate Texinfo source.
* pod2texi: (pod2texi)Invoking pod2texi. Translate Perl POD to Texinfo.
* texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi. Print Texinfo documents.
* texi2pdf: (texinfo)PDF Output. PDF output for Texinfo.
* pdftexi2dvi: (texinfo)PDF Output. PDF output for Texinfo.
* texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files.
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