This is a beta version of the CVS Texinfo manual. It is incomplete and probably contains errors. I need your help to find them and report them to me, so that the production release can be as good as possible. Thanks in advance! Send bug reports to . Compression method ------------------ Since you have unpacked this, you probably already know that the .z extension stands for "gzip" format. Gzip is available from: prep.ai.mit.edu (or any of the many mirrors of that archive) in pub/gnu/gzip-1.07.tar Document format --------------- This manual uses features from Texinfo version 2. You will not be able to format it using the Texinfo that is distributed wiht Emacs 18.59. I have been using Texinfo version 2.16, available via anonymous ftp from: prep.ai.mit.edu (or any of the many mirrors of that archive) in /pub/gnu/texinfo-2.16.tar.z Printed manual -------------- To produce a printed manual, use these commands: $ tex cvs.texinfo # First pass through TeX $ tex cvs.texinfo # Fix references $ texindex cvs.cp # Create the index $ tex cvs.texinfo # Include the index in the dvi file $ dvi2ps cvs.dvi # Convert the dvi file to a postscript file $ lpr cvs.ps # Print the file The last two commands are very system dependend. Some alternatives that are more or less likely to work are "dvips", "dviout", "dvilj2p" (if you have a HP LaserJet). Ask your local guru. On-line documentation --------------------- To create on-line info pages, use $ makeinfo cvs.texinfo This will create cvs.info and cvs.info-1 to cvs.info-4. You should install them in your info directory and add a line such as this to your dir file: -------------------------cut here--------------------------------- * cvs: (cvs.info). Beta CVS documentation from Signum Support AB. Send errors/patches to ceder@signum.se. -------------------------cut here--------------------------------- You can not format this manual with texinfo-format-buffer inside Emacs unless you update the node pointers first. (You can easily do that with texinfo-every-node-update). As mentioned earlier, you need the texinfo 2.16 package. The version of makeinfo I've been using is 1.49. News since 0.6 -------------- * Index added. * Lots of spelling errors corrected. * Menus updated. * A section on multiple repositories. * This README file added to the distribution. Linkoping, 1993-04-08 Per Cederqvist