diff --git a/LDP/texi2db/Changelog b/LDP/texi2db/Changelog
index 7e20c87e..aeaa53b9 100644
--- a/LDP/texi2db/Changelog
+++ b/LDP/texi2db/Changelog
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 			Thanks to Jaime Irving Davila Lotorre for patch.
 			<jadavila@uniandes.edu.co>
 
-CVS			Adds minimal indexing support.
+2002-06-26	0.5	Adds minimal indexing support.
 
 			Switch -v and -V, -v is now version, -V verbose.
 			Ordinarily, changing options is a no-no, but I have
@@ -19,3 +19,5 @@ CVS			Adds minimal indexing support.
 			When table formats are set to a literal, and another
 			literal is inside the column, delete the one inside.
 
+			Fixed a bug that caused output to never be written
+			to STDOUT.
diff --git a/LDP/texi2db/README b/LDP/texi2db/README
index c7860609..ca197acf 100644
--- a/LDP/texi2db/README
+++ b/LDP/texi2db/README
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ well.
 texi2db has full support for macros, aliases, and custom highlighting with
 @defenclosure commands.
 
-This software is still in development and has many bugs. Please feel free to
-send bug reports to <david@lupercalia.net>, but odds are I already know about
-it because of its stage of development.
+This software has been in active use for some time and has proven reliable.
+However, it is still in development and probably has bugs. Please feel free to
+send bug reports to <david@lupercalia.net>.
 
 David Merrill
 
@@ -36,6 +36,5 @@ The following structures are not supported, at least not yet.
 @dircategory
 @direntry
 @end direntry
-
 All of the indexing commands.
 @menu and friends are ignored for now, but I'm planning to support them later.
diff --git a/LDP/texi2db/doc/texi2db.pod b/LDP/texi2db/doc/texi2db.pod
index f2da4a36..27361572 100644
--- a/LDP/texi2db/doc/texi2db.pod
+++ b/LDP/texi2db/doc/texi2db.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-B<texi2db> - utility to convert Texinfo documents into DocBook XML.
+B<texi2db> - convert Texinfo documents into DocBook XML.
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ http://www.tldp.org for updates and more information.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
-This man page was written by David C. Merrill <david@lupercalia.net>.
+This man page was written by David Merrill <david@lupercalia.net>.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
 the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
diff --git a/LDP/texi2db/texi2db b/LDP/texi2db/texi2db
index bab97e7d..aac68dbb 100755
--- a/LDP/texi2db/texi2db
+++ b/LDP/texi2db/texi2db
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use File::Basename;
 use FileHandle;
 use HTML::Entities;
 
-$VERSION = "0.4.2-cvs";
+$VERSION = "0.5";
 
 $errors = 0;
 $error = 0;
@@ -640,7 +640,10 @@ if ($outputtype eq 'HTML') {
 
 if ($outputfile) {
 	&message("output will go to $outputfile") if ($verbose);
-	open($outfh, "> $outputfile");
+	$outfh = new FileHandle;
+	open($outfh, "> $outputfile") or die "Cannot write to $outputfile ($!)\n";
+} else {
+	$outfh = STDOUT;
 }
 
 while (<DATA>) {
@@ -652,7 +655,7 @@ while (<DATA>) {
 &processfile ("$requestedfile");
 
 &writefile;
-close($outfh) if ($outputfile);
+close($outfh);
 close($logfh) if ($logfile);
 
 sub processfile {
@@ -2369,13 +2372,14 @@ sub version {
 	print "Converts a Texinfo file into DocBook XML.\n";
 	print "\n";
 	print "This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no\n";
-	print "warranty; not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.\n";
+	print "warranty; not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.\n\n";
 }
 
 sub usage {
 	&version;
-	print "\n";
 	print "Usage: texi2db [OPTIONS]... [FILE]\n";
+	print "\n";
+	print "Options:\n";
 	print "-i, --include HTML|INFO|TEX\n";
 	print "                       include the specified text.\n";
 	print "-f, --file FILE        read from file rather than STDIN.\n";