GNU Texinfo 4.2: 20.2.2 Listing a New Info File

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### 20.2.2 Listing a New Info File

To add a new Info file to your system, you must write a menu entry to add to the menu in the ‘`dir`’ file in the ‘`info`’ directory. For example, if you were adding documentation for GDB, you would write the following new entry:

    * GDB: (gdb).           The source-level C debugger.

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.

The name of an Info file often has a ‘`.info`’ extension. Thus, the Info file for GDB might be called either ‘`gdb`’ or ‘`gdb.info`’. The Info reader programs automatically try the file name both with and without ‘`.info`’(11); so it is better to avoid clutter and not to write ‘`.info`’ explicitly in the menu entry. For example, the GDB menu entry should use just ‘`gdb`’ for the file name, not ‘`gdb.info`’.

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