Cygwin Info manual file
File type: Various data file
The .info-16 file extension identifies a numbered part of a Cygwin Info manual. It belongs to Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Microsoft Windows.
The file is normally stored with the manual's main .info file and other numbered parts.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 27, 2026
Cygwin is an open-source project that provides a Unix-like environment and GNU tools for Microsoft Windows. Its documentation includes manuals in the GNU Info format.
A .info-16 file is the sixteenth numbered part of an Info manual. It contains a continuation of the manual's documentation and is intended to be used together with the main .info file and any other parts.
The GNU Info reader available in Cygwin can use these split manual files for navigation and display. The format remains in use for documentation distributed with Cygwin on Microsoft Windows.
Use the GNU Info reader available in Cygwin to open the file. The reader works best when the main .info file and all numbered parts are kept in the same documentation directory.
Because Info files contain documentation text, a text editor can also display the contents of a .info-16 file, but it may not provide the links and navigation available in the Info reader.
A .info-16 file is a numbered documentation part, not a general-purpose data format, so it normally has no useful standalone conversion.
To produce HTML or another documentation format, the original Texinfo source should be converted with the appropriate Texinfo tools. If that source is unavailable, the file can generally only be read or copied as documentation text.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving info-16 files:
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