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From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viewing .TEX files
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Date: 4 Sep 90 21:01:48 GMT
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In article <90247.115001SONORAN@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx> SONORAN@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx (Pedro A. Galvan Pompa) writes:
[As I am one of those poor souls that does not have access to huge machines
[with the complete TEX implementations, every time I get hold of a good
[program with TEX documents I don't even bother to decompress it. The time
[spent trying to tell the chaff from the wheat in the docs is just too much.
[PLEASE! Have pity. Put your docs in straightforward ASCII, so all of us can
[benefit from it. Thanx!
[|    Pedro A. Galvan Pompa             |  SONORAN@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX  |
[| ITESM Campus Sonora Norte - Library  |  Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico     |
[|          LonelieST user south of the US-Mexico border...               |
[|          Disclaimer: Normally, ITESM doesn't talk...I DO!              |

Then those of us who do run TeX on our STs loose out. May I
suggest that you stache away a copy of dvi2tty (from
sun.soe.clarkson.edu ?) to make an ASCII version of the raw dvi
files? Or just get showdvi.zoo from the atari archives then you
can enjoy the typeset text without the TeX software.


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