Virgin import of GNU texinfo 4.0

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 This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
-sources needed to process Texinfo sources.  (Use texi2dvi to run a
-Texinfo manual through TeX to produce a DVI file.)
+sources needed to process Texinfo sources.  We recommend using the
+texi2dvi included in the distribution to run a Texinfo manual through
+TeX to produce a DVI file.
 
 The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
 vary so widely.  Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
 sense of security.  So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
 place.  If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
-standard (http://www.tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
+standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
 <texmf>/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and <texmf>/tex/plain/dvips/ for
 epsf.tex.  If you use the default installation paths, <texmf> will be
-/usr/local/share/texmf.  If you have teTeX, you can find <texmf> by
-running:
-  texconfig confall | grep \^TEXMF=
-(The configure script tries to do this for you.)
+/usr/local/share/texmf.  On systems with TeX preinstalled, as most
+GNU/Linux distributions offer, <texmf> will often be something like
+/usr/share/texmf.
+
+It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
+of overwriting existing ones, but it is more complicated.  See your TeX
+documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information.
+
+If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing
+ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the
+mktexlsr command.  In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R.
 
 You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
-ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex
-ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texinfo.tex
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors)
+ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors)
 or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex.
 If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check
 for a newer version.