Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: novice dvi question
Message-ID: <588@array.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 90 22:12:37 GMT
References: <90232.140410ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <90232.140410ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ERSHC@CUNYVM writes:
> Are dvi files generally compatable between different TeX packages?
> In particular, does anyone know if a .dvi file created by pcTeX
> can be printed with an emTeX dvidriver?

DVI files are supposed to be the same anywhere you can agree on the
definition of a byte.  The only trouble you might run into is fonts
which one package might use and another package not supply.  But
to use the TeX (trademark) name, you have to produce a dvi file that's
byte-for-byte identical to that produced by all other TeXs for some
very nasty test cases.
-- 
	-Colin