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From: dnd15j9z@umiami.miami.edu (Frank Rachel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viewing .TEX files
Message-ID: <6889.26e434eb@umiami.miami.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 90 03:12:43 GMT
References: <6859.26de8723@umiami.miami.edu> <90247.115001SONORAN@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx> <4495@tahoe.unr.edu>
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In article <4495@tahoe.unr.edu>, mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
> 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.

>  ~ |Mike Whitbeck             | mikew@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu    |

Everyting I have that came with docs in TeX format cam with the .TEX file,
so doesnt that have to be run through TeX to create the Dvi file?
If so, how about people including the DVI file as the doc.
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