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From: mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (Max Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viewing .TEX files
Message-ID: <310.26e41f17@wsuiar.uucp>
Date: 5 Sep 90 02:39:35 GMT
References: <6859.26de8723@umiami.miami.edu>
Organization: Wichita State Univ., Wichita KS
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In article <6859.26de8723@umiami.miami.edu>,
	dnd15j9z@umiami.miami.edu (Frank Rachel) writes:
> What EXACTLY do I need to VIEW a file with a .TEX extender (Basically,
> the file in question is the documentation to arcgsh3.0)
> 
> I don't want the complete TeX or LaTeX or whatever if not needed.
> 
> Only something to VIEW TeX files.
> 
> What and WHERE can I get them?

TeX files are just ASCII files, and you should be able to look at them
with most file viewers.  The most common problem seems to be with .TeX files
created on a Unix-like system, with linefeeds terminating lines instead of
a linefeed/return pair.  I know this freaks out the vanilla Atari file
viewer.

To solve this there are a couple of ways to go.  One of the Unix-type
editors (e.g. EMACS, STEVIE, etc. ... I use GNOME for this) can handle
these files. You can view them within the editor; you can also save them
in ST native format so that the desktop can handle them gracefully.

I don't recall if DCSHOWIT can handle them, but you could try it out and
see.  The TEMPUS demo from atari.archive might also be worth a shot.

Hope this helps.

Max J.