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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help! .dvi -> .tex ?
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Date: 3 Sep 90 00:53:07 GMT
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>>	Is there any program or any way for me to get the TeX file from
>>the DVI file? I also have the AUX, LOG files corresponding to the deleted
>>TeX file.
>
>I sympathize with you my friend. It happened to me once. I do not
>have or know a program that does the job that you want. However,
>here's what I would do: since you have the dvi file, get a print out
>and go find one of those Apple machine which can recognize characters
>in a printed page and create a text (ASCII) file of it (I don't remember
>the name of it). That's the only way to save yourself valuable time which
>otherwise you would have spent by typing the text. I don't know

Another possibility is to get Marcel Mol's dvi2tty from
comp.sources.misc and run it over your dvi file to generate an ascii
file, then insert the formatting directives.  If you had lots of
equations or pictures, too bad.  Dvi2tty is written in C and runs on
Unix and MSDOS but doesn't appear too difficult to port to other OSes.