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6.70.2. Contents of Texinfo
Installed programs: info, install-info, makeinfo (link to texi2any), pdftexi2dvi, pod2texi, texi2any, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex
Installed library: MiscXS.so, Parsetexi.so, and XSParagraph.so (all in /usr/lib/texinfo)
Installed directories: /usr/share/texinfo and /usr/lib/texinfo
Short Descriptions
info Used to read info pages which are similar to man pages, but often go much deeper than just explaining all the available command line options [For example, compare man bison and info bison.]
install-info Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the info index file
makeinfo Translates the given Texinfo source documents into info pages, plain text, or HTML pdftexi2dvi Used to format the given Texinfo document into a Portable Document Format (PDF) file pod2texi Converts Pod to Texinfo format
texi2any Translate Texinfo source documentation to various other formats
texi2dvi Used to format the given Texinfo document into a device-independent file that can be printed texi2pdf Used to format the given Texinfo document into a Portable Document Format (PDF) file texindex Used to sort Texinfo index files