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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>New Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="New Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="New Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" rel="up" title="Installing an Info File"> <link href="Other-Info-Directories.html" rel="next" title="Other Info Directories"> <link href="Directory-File.html" rel="prev" title="Directory File"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="New-Info-File"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Other-Info-Directories.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Info Files in Other Directories</a>, Previous: <a href="Directory-File.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">The Directory File <samp>dir</samp></a>, Up: <a href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Installing an Info File</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Listing-a-New-Info-File"></span><h4 class="subsection">20.2.2 Listing a New Info File</h4> <span id="index-Adding-a-new-Info-file"></span> <span id="index-Listing-a-new-Info-file"></span> <span id="index-New-Info-file_002c-listing-it-in-dir-file"></span> <span id="index-Info-files-2"></span> <span id="index-dir-file-listing"></span> <p>To add a new Info file to your system, you must write a menu entry to add to the menu in the <samp>dir</samp> file in the <samp>info</samp> directory. For example, if you were adding documentation for GDB, you would write the following new entry: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">* GDB: (gdb). The source-level C debugger. </pre></div> <p>The first part of the menu entry is the menu entry name, followed by a colon. The second part is the name of the Info file, in parentheses, followed by a period. The third part is the description. </p> <p>The name of an Info file often has a <samp>.info</samp> extension. Thus, the Info file for GDB might be called either <samp>gdb</samp> or <samp>gdb.info</samp>. The Info reader programs automatically try the file name both with and without <samp>.info</samp><a id="DOCF4" href="#FOOT4"><sup>4</sup></a>; so it is better to avoid clutter and not to write ‘<samp>.info</samp>’ explicitly in the menu entry. For example, the GDB menu entry should use just ‘<samp>gdb</samp>’ for the file name, not ‘<samp>gdb.info</samp>’. </p> </div> <div class="footnote"> <hr> <h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4> <h5><a id="FOOT4" href="#DOCF4">(4)</a></h5> <p>On MS-DOS/MS-Windows systems, Info will try the <samp>.inf</samp> extension as well.</p> </div> </body> </html>