This copy of GNU texinfo has been compiled with emx+gcc
using the emx 0.9c development tools. It can be used under
OS/2 and Win32.

An up to date copy should always be available as

  ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/doc/gnuinfo.zip

It requires the emx 0.9c or newer runtime under OS/2 and the
RSXNT 1.40 runtime under Win32. Both can be found at

  ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/...

To install GNU texinfo, copy the executables into a suitable
location and create your INFO file directory. Set the INFOPATH
environment variable. Make sure termcap.dat can be found via
PATH, INIT or TERMCAP environment variables. This file is part
of the emx runtime.

Attention: INFO.EXE uses ANSI emulation to drive screen output.
Unter Win32, this needs to be activated for the executable
containing the C runtime library with the RSXNTOPT command
(see documentation for the RSX runtime). However, since INFO.EXE
is linked dynamically with the C runtime library, the executable
containing the C runtime library is RSXNTCS.DLL. Consequently,
the ANSI emulation needs to be activated in this DLL using the
command "RSXNTOPT -b RSXNTCS.DLL -V". This, of course, enables
ANSI emulation for all executables using this DLL.

This version supports internationalization. To use it, set the
LANGUAGE environment variable (for german messages, set it to "de").

For that to work, you must set the LOCALEDIR environment variable to
point to the base locale directory (default is /lib/locale). Into this
directory, you must copy po/de.gmo (german message catalog, for
example) from the distribution as de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo and so
on for other languages.

To create printed manuals, the texinfo.tex macro package is used.
You need a TeX implementation for this purpose. I would recommend
emTeX for OS/2 which is not only the *only* widely available TeX
for OS/2 but also one of the best PC TeX versions at all. Texindex
is used to sort the TeX indices.


Kai Uwe Rommel

--
/* Kai Uwe Rommel                   ARS Computer & Consulting GmbH *
 * rommel@ars.de                                 Muenchen, Germany *
 * rommel@leo.org (http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2 maintenance) */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams


for version 2.11
November 11th, 1991

for version 2.14
February 24th, 1992

(integrated nice user interface enhancements from Galen C. Hunt)

for version 2.14 32-bit
June 2, 1992

for version 2.16 32-bit-only
October 15, 1992

Added support for GNU gzip compression.
Added Dave Gillespie's info.el 1.05 for Emacs to the distribution, also
with support for gzip compression.
February 19, 1993

Complete new port of info for version 3.1
May 31, 1993

Update for version 3.4
June 21, 1995

Update for version 3.7
April 14, 1996

Update for version 3.9
October 19, 1996

Update for version 3.11
added Win32 support via RSXNT
December 29, 1997

Bug fix in info.exe
January 5, 1998

