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 The Directory File `dir'
 ------------------------
 
   For Info to work, the `info' directory must contain a file that
 serves as a top level directory for the Info system.  By convention,
 this file is called `dir'.  (You can find the location of this file
 within Emacs by typing `C-h i' to enter Info and then typing `C-x C-f'
 to see the pathname to the `info' directory.)
 
   The `dir' file is itself an Info file.  It contains the top level
 menu for all the Info files in the system.  The menu looks like this:
 
      * Menu:
      * Info:    (info).     Documentation browsing system.
      * Emacs:   (emacs).    The extensible, self-documenting
                             text editor.
      * Texinfo: (texinfo).  With one source file, make
                             either a printed manual using
                             @TeX{} or an Info file.
      ...
 
   Each of these menu entries points to the `Top' node of the Info file
 that is named in parentheses.  (The menu entry does not need to specify
 the `Top' node, since Info goes to the `Top' node if no node name is
 mentioned.   Nodes in Other Info Files Other Info Files.)
 
   Thus, the `Info' entry points to the `Top' node of the `info' file
 and the `Emacs' entry points to the `Top' node of the `emacs' file.
 
   In each of the Info files, the `Up' pointer of the `Top' node refers
 back to the `dir' file.  For example, the line for the `Top' node of
 the Emacs manual looks like this in Info:
 
      File: emacs  Node: Top, Up: (DIR), Next: Distrib
 
 In this case, the `dir' file name is written in upper case letters--it
 can be written in either upper or lower case.  This is not true in
 general, it is a special case for `dir'.
 

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