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If you have a "normal" tex installation you probably have texinfo.tex
and so you can do:
 tex latex2e.texi

Which will produce the dvi file. You will probably have to run 'tex'
more than once to resolve the references. You may even have 'texi2dvi'
which is a script that takes care of all of that for you.

hope that helps.


Ko Georges (ko@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr) wrote:
: >>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Zender <zender@sage.cgd.ucar.edu> writes:

: Charlie> i am really trying to figure out how texinfo files work.
: Charlie> as an example, i downloaded the latest latex documentation
: Charlie> i could find, latex2e.texi, which is some sort of texinfo
: Charlie> file. i thought you could just run
: Charlie> this file through latex, generating a .dvi file, and then
: Charlie> dvips it for hardcopy. this doesn't work.

: 	No, it doesn't work this way. The TeXinfo format has it's own
: syntax, based on @ commands. To get the TeX file, you have to use a
: program called texinfo to generate it and use makeinfo to generate the
: on-line version. 

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