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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: emTeX: dvitype question and AMSTeX questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.234322.15036@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 1 Jan 91 23:43:22 GMT
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>1. I presume that the dvitype of emTeX will do a dvi to ascii convertion,
>but after running ``dvitype -pvc file'', it gives something like:
>
>setchar110: h:5261094+36409=5625184, hh:=428
>etc. etc.
>
>I am totally lost. Could someone rescue me? Thanks.

Dvitype isn't for converting to ASCII, merely to display the contents
of a DVI file in a human readable form. It's used for debugging DVI
files and in the trip test. Try dvi2tty.