This archive contains sources for ST versions of of a 'stand-alone'
programs from texinfo-2.14 package, which can be found on
prep.ai.mit.edu server.  Besides of beeing compilable on ST they
include various bug fixes and modifications.  In particular they will
compile cleanly with -mshort option of gcc compiler.  The original
.tar file contains also some elisp code for GNU-emacs users and
Texinfo documentation in Texinfo format.  ST binaries were posted in
comp.sys.atari.st.binaries and include also formated man-pages, a text
of info tutorial and installation instructions.

Programs from this archive allow for formatting, display, printing and
help with TeX-ing of documentation in GNU Texinfo format.  This covers
documentation for most programs originating from Free Software
Foundation (GNU) but not only.  For a "native" Atari example you can
find an already ancient Gulam docs which were released as formatted
info file.

To find more about Texinfo system retrieve texinfo2.texi documentation
file from prep.ai.mit.edu - around 480 K.  You should be able to find
a possibly older variant of this file on full installations of
GNU-emacs.

Info files created with these programs on ST are fully compatible with
their Un*x counterparts and files prepared by makeinfo can be freely
moved between both systems possibly requiring only a trivial rename.
Names used internally are the same, so you do not have to muck with
tag tables and the like.

The sources are distributed under standard GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
See file COPYING for details.

These sources were used for compilation with gcc-2.1 compiler and
binaries were created by linking with slightly modified libraries
PatchLevel 79 (with small modifications which will hopefuly show
"officially" on level 80 :-)).  They still compile without any
modifications on NeXT, for example, and it should be easy to move
them to other Un*x and not only machines.

   Happy infing,
   Michal Jaegermann
   ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
