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   IDLWAVE derives it knowledge about system routines from the IDL
manuals.  The file `idlw-rinfo.el' contains the routine information for
the IDL system routines.  The Online Help feature of IDLWAVE requires
ASCII versions of some IDL manuals to be available in a specific format
(`idlw-help.txt'), along with an Emacs-Lisp file `idlw-help.el' with
supporting code and pointers to the ASCII file.

   All 3 files can be derived from the IDL documentation.  If you are
lucky, the maintainer of IDLWAVE will always have access to the newest
version of IDL and provide updates.  The IDLWAVE distribution also
contains the Perl program `get_rinfo' which constructs these files by
scanning selected files from the IDL documentation.  Instructions on
how to use `get_rinfo' are in the program itself.