             == README for the `fileinfo' bundle ==

This bundle has packages `readprov.sty' and `myfilist.sty'.

`readprov.sty' 

    renders \GetFileInfo from LaTeX's `doc.sty' (without the 
    latter being required), as well as new robust (expandable) 
    variants of it, usable with files that are not really 
    loaded (they are quit when their file info is found, 
    cf. the `zwgetfdate' package). So, e.g., you can describe 
    packages that are incompatible with each other or with 
    packages that your document uses. You even can report about 
    various class files.

    Such packages then also appear with LaTeX's \listfiles. 
    You may consider this a bug ...

`myfilist.sty' 

    makes this "bug" a feature. In a "TeX script," you can choose
    some files and their order. Their names can be output into a 
    plain text file with their dates, version ids, and one-line
    descriptions, formatted in the way \listfiles does it after 
    a LaTeX run. This way you can get an overview of, e.g., some 
    package bundle ... 

`readprov' and `myfilist' are licensed according to the LaTeX 
Project Public License (see files; NO WARRANTY!). They are 
author-maintained.

The two packages are described in more detail in `readprov.pdf' 
and `myfilist.pdf'. These documentation files also serve to 
demonstrate some .txt->.tex functionality of the `nicetext' bundle.

A TDS version is available as 

    CTAN:/install/macros/contrib/fileinfo.tds.zip

2012/03/18, Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu

