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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Latex to ASCII
Message-ID: <4247@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:33:59 GMT
References: <9902@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta)

>>>>> In message <9902@helios.TAMU.EDU>, skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta) (SKD) writes:

SKD> 	I need a dvi to ascii converter. I could find some of them
SKD> in some ftp sites but they either require some special files or a
SKD> pascal compiler. Is there any program in 'C' anywhere which does'nt
SKD> require anything else to compile other than the UNIX C compiler and
SKD> the Libraries.

How to get dvi2tty.shar from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/DVI/dvi2tty.shar

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/DVI/dvi2tty.shar
    end

The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your
message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you
first issue the request:
    send HELP
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