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non-interactive emacs

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From: Michael Dyck
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 21:59
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Forgive me, but I don't know much about emacs.
To create foo.info from foo.texinfo, I've been doing this:

> emacs foo.texinfo
> M-x texinfo-format-buffer
>   {lots of stuff happens on the bottom line}
> C-x C-c
>   {it asks if I want to save a tags file}
> yes

I'd like to be able to do this without interacting with emacs, so that
I can do it from a makefile or a shell script. I thought
> emacs -f texinfo-format-buffer foo.texinfo
or
> emacs foo.texinfo -f texinfo-format-buffer
might work, but they don't. I get
> Search failed: "@setfilename"

Any suggestions? Please email.

  -Michael Dyck
   dyck@cs.sfu.ca
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From: dyck@fornax.UUCP (Michael Dyck)
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Subject: non-interactive emacs
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Date: 14 Nov 90 21:59:59 GMT
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 22:59:59 1990