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.) 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 /tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and /tex/plain/dvips/ for epsf.tex. If you use the default installation paths, will be /usr/local/share/texmf. If you have teTeX, you can find by running: texconfig confall | grep \^TEXMF= (The configure script tries to do this for you.) You can get the latest texinfo.tex from ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texinfo.tex 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. epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it installed. The version here is functionally identical but slightly nicer than the one in dvips574. The changes have been sent to the epsf.tex maintainer.