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To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: print/texinfo
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 20 May 1997 08:53:28 +0200
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asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) writes:

> What is the status of texinfo port?  We've got texinfo-3.9 in
> /usr/src/contrib now. 

Looks like this is necessary for those who prefer to install TeX &
friends in pieces instead of using teTeX. texinfo.fmt speeds up the
tex startup for .texi-processing, but not much on modern machines.

tg