diff -urp texinfo-5.2/gnulib/lib/stat.c texinfo-5.2j/gnulib/lib/stat.c
--- texinfo-5.2/gnulib/lib/stat.c	2013-02-20 08:25:29 +1000
+++ texinfo-5.2j/gnulib/lib/stat.c	2014-11-05 23:30:55 +1000
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #undef __need_system_sys_stat_h
 
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+# define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+# include <windows.h>
 # if _GL_WINDOWS_64_BIT_ST_SIZE
 #  undef stat /* avoid warning on mingw64 with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 */
 #  define stat _stati64
@@ -134,5 +136,32 @@ rpl_stat (char const *name, struct stat
         }
     }
 #endif /* REPLACE_FUNC_STAT_DIR */
+#ifdef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+  if (result == 0)
+    {
+      /* Under Windows, st_dev (32 bits) is the drive number & st_ino (16 bits)
+         is always 0.  The handle file information contains a 32-bit volume
+         serial number (i.e. a device id) with a 64-bit file index (unique file
+         id).  Since the two st values are always tested together, put the
+         lower 16 bits of the serial into st_ino and combine the index values
+         into st_dev (brief testing shows the low word of the high index and
+         the high three digits of the low index are likely 0).  */
+      BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION fi;
+      HANDLE h = CreateFile (name, 0,
+                             FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_SHARE_DELETE,
+                             NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,
+                             NULL);
+      if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+        {
+          if (GetFileInformationByHandle (h, &fi))
+            {
+              st->st_ino = LOWORD (fi.dwVolumeSerialNumber);
+              st->st_dev = (HIWORD (fi.nFileIndexHigh) << 24)
+                           | (fi.nFileIndexLow & 0xFFFFFF);
+            }
+          CloseHandle (h);
+        }
+    }
+#endif
   return result;
 }
diff -urp texinfo-5.2/info/pcterm.c texinfo-5.2j/info/pcterm.c
--- texinfo-5.2/info/pcterm.c	2013-08-23 03:54:06 +1000
+++ texinfo-5.2j/info/pcterm.c	2014-11-07 11:57:35 +1000
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <io.h>
 #include <conio.h>
 #include <process.h>
+#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
 #include <windows.h>
 
 struct text_info {
@@ -249,11 +250,20 @@ ScreenVisualBell (void)
   DWORD nchars = screenwidth * screenheight;
   COORD start_pos;
   DWORD written;
+  PWORD attr;
+  DWORD i;
 
   start_pos.X = start_pos.Y = 0;
-  FillConsoleOutputAttribute (hscreen, inv_attr, nchars, start_pos, &written);
-  Sleep (20);
-  FillConsoleOutputAttribute (hscreen, norm_attr, nchars, start_pos, &written);
+  attr = xmalloc (nchars * sizeof (WORD));
+  ReadConsoleOutputAttribute (hscreen, attr, nchars, start_pos, &written);
+  for (i = 0; i < nchars; ++i)
+    attr[i] ^= norm_attr ^ inv_attr;
+  WriteConsoleOutputAttribute (hscreen, attr, nchars, start_pos, &written);
+  Sleep (50);
+  for (i = 0; i < nchars; ++i)
+    attr[i] ^= norm_attr ^ inv_attr;
+  WriteConsoleOutputAttribute (hscreen, attr, nchars, start_pos, &written);
+  free (attr);
 }
 
 int
@@ -670,7 +680,23 @@ pc_put_text (string)
   if (speech_friendly)
     fputs (string, stdout);
   else
+#ifdef _WIN32
+    {
+      DWORD dummy;
+      WCHAR ws[256];
+      /* Newer files use UTF-8, older Latin1 (probably). */
+      int len = MultiByteToWideChar (CP_UTF8, MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, string, -1,
+				     ws, 256);
+      if (len == 0)
+	len = MultiByteToWideChar (1252, 0, string, -1, ws, 256);
+      if (len == 0)
+	WriteConsoleA (hscreen, string, strlen (string), &dummy, NULL);
+      else
+	WriteConsoleW (hscreen, ws, len - 1, &dummy, NULL);
+    }
+#else
     cputs (string);
+#endif
 }
 
 /* Ring the terminal bell.  The bell is rung visibly if the terminal is
@@ -699,7 +725,7 @@ pc_write_chars (string, nchars)
   if (speech_friendly)
     printf ("%.*s",nchars, string);
   else
-    cprintf ("%..*s",nchars, string);
+    cprintf ("%.*s",nchars, string);
 }
 
 /* Scroll an area of the terminal from START to (and excluding) END,