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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: missing postamble/iptex
Keywords: help!
Message-ID: <19309@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 08:44:16 GMT
References: <2932@tahoe.unr.edu>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2932@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
writes:
>I got a version of TeX/LaTeX (HaTe ThIs!) going on an Atari ST ....
>However when I send the dvi file to my friendly SUN 3 at work
>the printer (iptex, shell script calling an IMAGEN driver,
>imagen1) program complains about a missing "postamble" and
>questions if this is REALLY a dvi file then quits.

The first step in examining a questionable dvi file is to run dvitype
over it.  If dvitype likes it, there may well be a bug in the dvi
interpreter (in this case, probably an ancient version of imagen1).

A current (beta-status) version of imagen1 is available as part of the
beta release of MC-TeX announced here several days ago.  The old
version did in fact have some problems with finding postambles on some
dvi files (in particular, those generated with versions of TeX that
like `run-on signatures').

In this case, though, if the dvi file was sent from the Atari to the
Sun over an ordinary serial port without using some error-correcting
transport protocol, or if it was sent via FTP without using binary
mode, the most likely problem is that the dvi file got mangled in
transmission.
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