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From: idall@augean.ua.OZ.AU (Ian Dall)
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Subject: [aus.tex...] DVItoVDU patch
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Date: 21 Nov 90 21:02:34 GMT
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I know I said I waasn't going to do any more work on this but...

There is a patch to the recently anounced C version of DVItoVDU available
for anonymous ftp from augean.ua.oz.au. The file is pub/misc/dv.patch.Z.
ACSnet fetchfilers delete the leading pub/.

This is mostly a functional enhancement which uses the same font directory
hierarchy as dvi3ps. That is: If "fontdir/SUBDIR" exists then dv expects
the pk files to be in "fontdir/name/font" where "name" is for example
cmr10 and "font" might be cmr10.300pk. Otherwise it looks for "fontdir/font".

This is a considerable win as it prevents the need for a font
directory with 1000+ files in it.