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In article <9105281354.AA10588@noname> grc-day!pmchale@UUNET.UU.NET
(Paul Mchale) writes:

   grc-day% initex
   ...

The Texinfo format is built on top of PLAIN, so you have to load the
PLAIN format first.  Normally, Texinfo files contain `\input texinfo'
as the top, so you can simply install `texinfo.tex' in your TeX macro
library (typically /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs or something similar) and
use (plain) `tex' to format the manuals.

The alternative is to make a texinfo.fmt using

        initex \&plain texinfo @dump

and install it in a TEXFORMATS directory (/usr/local/lib/tex/formats
or some such), and use `virtex \&texinfo' as the formatting command.
This will give you much faster startup times, because the texinfo.tex
file will not be loaded.

If you use the `texi2dvi' command contained in the Texinfo-2
distribution, you can set the TEXINFO variable to `virtex \&texinfo'.

This works with texinfo-2.05, but will probably *not* work with very
old versions of Texinfo!
--
Simon.