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+ == README for the `fileinfo' bundle ==
+
+This bundle has packages `readprov.sty' and `myfilist.sty'.
+
+`readprov.sty'
+
+ renders \GetFileInfo from LaTeX's `doc.sty' (without the
+ latter being required), as well as new robust (expandable)
+ variants of it, usable with files that are not really
+ loaded (they are quit when their file info is found,
+ cf. the `zwgetfdate' package). So, e.g., you can describe
+ packages that are incompatible with each other or with
+ packages that your document uses. You even can report about
+ various class files.
+
+ Such packages then also appear with LaTeX's \listfiles.
+ You may consider this a bug ...
+
+`myfilist.sty'
+
+ makes this "bug" a feature. In a "TeX script," you can
+ choose some files and their order. Their names can be
+ output into a plain text file with their dates, version
+ ids, and one-line descriptions, formatted in the way
+ \listfiles does it after a LaTeX run. This way you can get
+ an overview of, e.g., some package bundle ...
+
+The two packages are described in more detail in `readprov.pdf'
+and `myfilist.pdf'. These documentation files also serve to
+demonstrate some .txt->.tex functionality of the `nicetext'
+bundle.
+
+Both packages evaluate the \Provides... commands that should
+identify a LaTeX file. They are described in the context of
+other packages evaluating the \Provides... entries by the
+`info' package `latexfileinfo-pkgs',
+
+ http://ctan.org/pkg/latexfileinfo-pkgs
+
+The file `fileinfo.RLS', when installed just like
+`myfilist.sty' and `readprov.sty' (in the `tex' tree of a TDS),
+provides a summary of the currently installed release of the
+`fileinfo' bundle, accessible as LaTeX file info by all of
+these packages.
+
+`readprov' and `myfilist' are LICENSEd according to the LaTeX
+Project Public License (see files; NO WARRANTY!). They are
+author-maintained.
+
+A TDS version is available as
+
+ CTAN:/install/macros/contrib/fileinfo.tds.zip
+
+2012/05/26, Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
+