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+Christian Spieler Thursday, 02-April-1992
+
+This archive contains a patched version of the GNU index sorter
+"texindex" from the texinfo-2.14 package.
+The patches have been applied to get a working texindex on MSDOS systems.
+
+Contents of the archive:
+
+ texindex.c - the patched source
+ getopt.c - ..
+ getopt.h - ..
+ texindex.exe - executable for MSDOS compiled by MSC 5.10
+ alloca.mar - GNU's alloca() replacement for VMS
+ changes - a hacked change log
+ 00readme - this file
+
+Some hint for compiling on MSDOS:
+- The program needs a lot of data space, you have to use a large data model.
+ Since the code fits into one 64k segment, compact model is sufficient.
+- The default MSC stack allocation is too small. Reserving 8 kByte (0x2000)
+ of stack space seems to be sufficient for MSC.
+- For MSC 5.1, the following command should compile an executable (nearly)
+ identical to the distributed file:
+
+ cl -AC -Ox -W3 -Fm -F 2000 texindex.c getopt.c /link /exe
+
+ (The -W3 and -Fm flags are optional, remove them if you do not want
+ warning messages or a map file.)
+
+--
+Christian Spieler
+<spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+I have added texindex.pch which is a patch file to produce
+Christian's versions from the original ones. (Of course, you might
+also produce the original ones with this file, just call patch with
+-R.) And I've added COPYING (thou shalt not have an distribution
+without it ;-).
+
+Thanks to him for the fine work.
+
+--
+Joachim Schrod
+<schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>