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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvi to ascii conversion program.
Message-ID: <3561@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 4 Jul 90 10:08:13 GMT
References: <1990Jul2.020027.10033@ariel.unm.edu>
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In-reply-to: erikj@hydra.unm.edu (Erik Johannes STUDENT)

In article <1990Jul2.020027.10033@ariel.unm.edu>, erikj@hydra (Erik Johannes STUDENT) writes:
 |
 |I have been trying to find a program to convert dvi files to ascii.  I need
 |it to send text, such as resumes, to people without TeX or who don't want
 |to bother with TeX.  The conversion utility should take a dvi file and out
 |put the basic formatted tex in either ansi or simple control character free
 |text.
 |
The program dvi2tty will do this. It is not perfect, but reasonable. You
can FTP it from sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], file pub/TEX/dvi2tty.shar.
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