Congratulations,

	you are now the proud owner of the Linux syscalls
specifications manual. The files you decompressed are in texinfo
format. The good thing with texinfo sources is that you can convert
them in a printed manual and in online ASCII documentation. 

-- How to get a printed manual?

Here are the steps:

	>tex syscalls.texi
	>dvips syscalls.dvi -o syscalls.ps
	>lpr syscalls.ps

Note that these steps work only if you have a Postscript printer
connected. For other kind of printers, a command like dvi2<format> or
dvi<format> should be available on your machine. Consult your local
guru for more info. (I only use PS printers...)

-- How to visualise the printed manual on screen?

You must have XWin started.

	>tex syscalls.texi   (This not necessary if you already have the .dvi).
	>xdvi syscalls.dvi

-- How to get an online manual?

First of all, you must know that the online documentation will be
browsable only by emacs or info. Both are obtainable from the FSF.

To produce the output files you must use the makeinfo utility which is
also obtainable form the FSF do:

	>makeinfo syscalls.texi

If you don't have makeinfo:

	enter emacs
	load syscalls.texi
	issue the command makeinfo-buffer (M-x makeinfo-buffer).

Now, you should have a bunch of files named syscalls, syscalls-1,
syscalls-2, ... 

Once you have the output files, you can use info or emacs to browse
them. One way to do this is to add the output files to the info
repository on your system (usually this is /usr/local/info or
/usr/info). If you don't have access to that directory and you local
sysadm is a tyrant, forget it. Otherwise, you just have to copy the
output files there and edit the "dir" file that is stored in there.
This file is the 1st one read by emacs or info to give you the top
node menu. Read the file with your prefered text editor and add the
following between the "@menu" and "@end menu" lines:

* Linux syscalls: (syscalls).      Linux syscalls specifications.

and save the file.

To browse the info, you can now start info and you'll have the new
option in the top node menu. Othewise, you can start emacs and press
C-h i to start the info browser.

If you can't update info "dir" file, you have to type:

	>info -f syscalls 

to browse the files with info or start emacs, type C-h i and then C-u
C-h i and enter the name and path of syscalls and then press enter.



I think that's all you need to know to use that documentation.

	So long.

	Louis-Dominique Dubeau  <hallu@info.polymtl.ca>


