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Listing a New Info File
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  To add a new Info file to your system, you must write a menu entry to
add to the menu in the `dir' file in the `info' directory.  For
example, if you were adding documentation for GDB, you would write the
following new entry:

     * GDB: (gdb).           The source-level C debugger.

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.

  The name of an Info file often has a `.info' extension.  Thus, the
Info file for GDB might be called either `gdb' or `gdb.info'.  The Info
reader programs automatically try the file name both with and without
`.info'(1) (Note: New Info File-Footnote-1); so it is better to avoid
clutter and not to write `.info' explicitly in the menu entry.  For
example, the GDB menu entry should use just `gdb' for the file name,
not `gdb.info'.