diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkdvi.sh b/Doc/tools/mkdvi.sh
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--- a/Doc/tools/mkdvi.sh
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@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-#
-#  Build one of the simple documents.  This can be used to create the DVI,
-#  PDF, or LaTeX "aux" files.  It can accept one of three optional parameters:
-#
-#  --aux	Create only the LaTeX .aux file
-#  --dvi	Create the DeVice Independent output
-#  --pdf	Create Adobe PDF output
-#
-#  If no parameter is given, DVI output is produced.
-#
-#  One positional parameter is required:  the "base" of the document to
-#  format.  For the standard Python documentation, this will be api, ext,
-#  lib, mac, ref, or tut.
-
-WORKDIR=`pwd`
-cd `dirname $0`/..
-srcdir=`pwd`
-cd $WORKDIR
-
-latex=latex
-aux=''
-pdf=''
-if [ "$1" = "--pdf" ] ; then
-    pdf=true
-    latex=pdflatex
-    shift 1
-elif [ "$1" = "--aux" ] ; then
-    aux=true
-    shift 1
-elif [ "$1" = "--dvi" ] ; then
-    shift 1
-fi
-
-part=$1; shift 1
-
-TEXINPUTS=.:$srcdir/$part:$TEXINPUTS
-export TEXINPUTS
-
-echo $srcdir'/tools/newind.py >'$part'.ind'
-$srcdir/tools/newind.py >$part.ind || exit $?
-echo $srcdir'/tools/newind.py modindex >mod'$part'.ind'
-$srcdir/tools/newind.py modindex >mod$part.ind || exit $?
-echo "$latex $part"
-$latex $part || exit $?
-if [ ! -f mod$part.idx ] ; then
-    echo "Not using module index; removing mod$part.ind"
-    rm mod$part.ind || exit $?
-fi
-if [ "$aux" ] ; then
-    # make sure the .dvi isn't interpreted as useful:
-    rm $part.dvi || exit $?
-else
-    if [ -f $part.idx ] ; then
-	# using the index
-	echo $srcdir'/tools/fix_hack '$part'.idx'
-	$srcdir/tools/fix_hack $part.idx || exit $?
-	echo 'makeindex -s '$srcdir'/texinputs/python.ist '$part'.idx'
-	makeindex -s $srcdir/texinputs/python.ist $part.idx || exit $?
-	echo $srcdir'/tools/indfix.py '$part'.ind'
-	$srcdir/tools/indfix.py $part.ind || exit $?
-    else
-	# skipping the index; clean up the unused file
-	rm -f $part.ind
-    fi
-    if [ -f mod$part.idx ] ; then
-	# using the index
-	echo 'makeindex -s '$srcdir'/texinputs/python.ist mod'$part'.idx'
-	makeindex -s $srcdir/texinputs/python.ist mod$part.idx || exit $?
-    fi
-    if [ "$pdf" ] ; then
-	echo $srcdir'/tools/toc2bkm.py '$part
-	$srcdir/tools/toc2bkm.py $part || exit $?
-    fi
-    echo "$latex $part"
-    $latex $part || exit $?
-fi
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhtml.sh b/Doc/tools/mkhtml.sh
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--- a/Doc/tools/mkhtml.sh
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@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-#
-# Drive HTML generation for a Python manual.
-#
-# This is probably *not* useful outside of the standard Python documentation,
-# but suggestions are welcome and should be sent to <python-docs@python.org>.
-#
-# The first arg is required and is the designation for which manual to build;
-# api, ext, lib, ref, or tut.  All other args are passed on to latex2html.
-
-WORKDIR=`pwd`
-cd `dirname $0`/..
-srcdir=`pwd`
-cd $WORKDIR
-
-use_logical_names=true
-
-if [ "$1" = "--numeric" ] ; then
-    use_logical_names=false
-    shift 1
-fi
-
-part=$1; shift 1
-
-TEXINPUTS=$srcdir/$part:$TEXINPUTS
-export TEXINPUTS
-
-if [ -d $part ] ; then
-    rm -f $part/*.html
-else
-    mkdir $part
-fi
-
-echo "latex2html -no_auto_link" \
- "-up_url '../index.html' -up_title 'Documentation Index'" \
- "-init_file $srcdir/perl/l2hinit.perl -dir $part" \
- "${1:+$@} $srcdir/$part/$part.tex"
-latex2html \
- -no_auto_link \
- -up_url '../index.html' \
- -up_title 'Documentation Index' \
- -init_file $srcdir/perl/l2hinit.perl \
- -address '<hr>See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes.' \
- -dir $part \
- ${1:+$@} \
- $srcdir/$part/$part.tex || exit $?
-
-cp $part/$part.html $part/index.html
-
-# copy in the stylesheet
-echo "cp $srcdir/html/style.css $part/$part.css"
-cp $srcdir/html/style.css $part/$part.css || exit $?
-
-if $use_logical_names ; then
-    echo "(cd $part; $srcdir/tools/node2label.pl \*.html)"
-    cd $part
-    $srcdir/tools/node2label.pl *.html || exit $?
-else
-    echo "Skipping use of logical file names due to --numeric."
-fi
diff --git a/Doc/tools/newind.py b/Doc/tools/newind.py
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--- a/Doc/tools/newind.py
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-#! /usr/bin/env python
-
-"""Really nasty little script to create an empty, labeled index on stdout.
-
-Do it this way since some shells seem to work badly (and differently) with
-the leading '\b' for the first output line.  Specifically, /bin/sh on
-Solaris doesn't seem to get it right.  Once the quoting works there, it
-doesn't work on Linux any more.  ;-(
-"""
-__version__ = '$Revision$'
-#  $Source$
-
-import sys
-
-if sys.argv[1:]:
-    label = sys.argv[1]
-else:
-    label = "genindex"
-
-print "\\begin{theindex}"
-print "\\label{%s}" % label
-print "\\end{theindex}"