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From: darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVI previewer for tektronix - again
Keywords: tektronix
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.231835.25487@edm.isac.CA>
Date: 10 Sep 90 23:18:35 GMT
References: <1312@forty2.UUCP>
Reply-To: darius@isagate.nexus.ca (Darius S. Naqvi)
Organization: ISA Corporation
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In article <1312@forty2.UUCP> eschle@forty2.UUCP (Patrik Eschle) writes:
>
>Some weeks ago I posted a query for a DVI previewer for tektronix
>terminals.
>
>I got an answer from Eric Hoffman <prism!ccsupeh>, saying "Try the
>dvi2vdu previewer from the Aston archive".
>
>My questions: - Where (internt number, mail address) is this Aston
>                archive? (my mail to Eric did no go through).
>
>              - Is this the only known DVI previewer for Tektronix
>                terminals? (or are we the last one still using tek
>                emulation for graphics?)
>
>Thank you,
>Patrik
>-- 
>Patrik Eschle, Physics Institute University of  Zuerich (Switzerland)
>uucp: eschle@forty2.uu.ch (bang: uunet!chx400!forty2!eschle)
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We've got this dvi2vdu from a uunet tape.  It looks very good, and the
documentation implies that it will work on a wide variety of terminal
types.  The problem is that I'll never get to find out about it,
because it is written in Modula-2 (!).  Is there anything like this
written in C?
-- 
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