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From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
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Subject: Re: PasTeX question
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Date: 3 Dec 90 16:11:09 GMT
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In article <29700010@inmet> vesty@inmet.inmet.com writes:
>
>I recently ftp'ed PasTeX and PasTeXextras off of new-xanth. This
>system looks great. The only problem is that the documnetation is in
>German except for a small short reference manual. 
>
>I've been able to figure out how to use everything except DVIprint.
>(It would be nice to print out output of a document :> ).
>
>This is what happens: 
>
>DVIprint -d 2 file.dvi  ( -d 2 | 3 is for hp deskjet )
>
>causes a memory access guru. Any suggestions?

Can you send me more information via e-mail. 
Version number of the programs, version of you OS, ... the command
line options.

May be a _short_ dvi-file, which causes the crash.


>Also, what is initex used for?

Only to make a format file. That's a memory dump of the internal
arrays of TeX. So, you can parse you favorite macro-packet and make
via '\dump' a dump (format file). Than, you can say virtex to read
in this format file at startup 'virtex &your_format_file your_tex_file'.
That's saves a lot of time.


>Thanks,
>Matt

	Georg.

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