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<span id="Listing-a-New-Info-File"></span><h4 class="subsection">21.2.2 Listing a New Info File</h4>
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<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:
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<pre class="example">* GDB: (gdb). The source-level C debugger.
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<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.
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<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="DOCF5" href="#FOOT5"><sup>5</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>’.
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
<h5><a id="FOOT5" href="#DOCF5">(5)</a></h3>
<p>On MS-DOS/MS-Windows systems, Info will
try the <samp>.inf</samp> extension as well.</p>
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