Need copy of old TexInfo 4.1

From what I've read, versions of TexInfo newer than 4.2 do not work in the
Win32 console, instead they complain that it is too "dumb" to run info. From
the GnuWin32 News page I see that version 4.1 was released by GnuWin43 on
2002-03-06, however I can't find this version available for download anywhere.
Is this release (or the source) available somewhere? It would be very handy to
be able to read info pages on Windows.

Thanks,

Tim

It seems that in the recent restructuring by SourceForge of its site, it has
moved releases marked as old ('invisible') to some backup directory. I will
see whether they can be recovered, but it is difficult and extremely slow to
get a view of this directory.Also, as far as I remember, the texinfo package
from GnuWin32 has never had a working info. Moreover, for the documentation
from GnuWin32 packages, you are probably much better off by using the pdf's of
the info files, which are distributed with the package. Info files that do not
have a pdf version, can be read by means of the TkInfo program (http://math-
www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/)

Ah yes, the infamous Sourceforge restructuring, it has bitten many. I would
appreciate it if you could dig this old version out, on the off chance that it
does actually work.

I appreciate the link to Tkinfo, I will definitely check it out, however I
would still like to find a way to read info files in the console.

Thanks for the great ports!

MSYS, provided by the MinGW Project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw) has a working info for Win32.

Keith,

Thanks for the tip, however I'm really looking for a native way to read info
files in the win32 console, that's why I'm looking to GnuWin32 instead of MSYS
or Cygwin.

You mean from cmd.exe? MSYS itself runs quite happily in a Win32 console;
indeed that's the container we recommend for it. We expect that most users
will prefer sh.exe to cmd.exe, and we don't strictly support running MSYS
commands from cmd.exe, but in many cases it does work -- YMMV.

You may be disappointed in your search for a functional and entirely native
info for Win32. If you find one, let us know. You could try simply copying
info.exe and msys-1.0.dll from a current MSYS installation, into some
convenient directory in your cmd.exe PATH; seems to work for me, but again,
YMMV.

Keith,

You mean from cmd.exe?

Actually, I'm using WinZsh, but if it works
in cmd.exe it will work in zsh.exe.

I appreciate the fact that the info from MSYS or Cygwin will work, however
they are not "native", which does not meet my requirements.

This message by Mathias
Michaelis seemed to indicate that texinfo versions 4.2 or earlier may work
natively in the win32 console. I see you were active in that thread as well.
That thread seemed to confirm the fact that at least GnuWin32 texinfo 4.6 does
not work, and couldn't be made to work without significant effort, however the
question of whether earlier versions worked seemed to be left unanswered.

I may not be able to find a native version, but I haven't given up hope yet.