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From: dooley@utkux1.utk.edu (Kevin Dooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: CommonTex
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.011341.24715@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 01:13:41 GMT
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In article <43239@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca writes:
>
>     I downloaded CommonTex from the amiga/tex directory of ab20 yesterday,
>and I can't seem to get it to work. I set up all the files in their proper
>directories, and I get the shell fine, put if I run VerTeX on any of the
>included .tex files, I get errors, and when I dump the .dvi file to prt:
>all I get is baud barf. (I have a MPS 1250 - an Epson FX compatible)
>
>     How does one print out a .dvi file? What else do I need to download,
>and where can I find it? Or: if someone out there has what I need, and
>can send stuff over mail without going bankrupt, please send it to me
>lharc-ed and uuencoded. (address is in the sig_)
>
>     In either case, please e-mail me directly. My c.s.a relay is acting
>up again, and I may not see a post.
>
>     Thanx in advance,
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Dennis Grant   3rd year CS student at Le College Militaire Royal de St-Jean
>  DETUD595@CMR001.BITNET
>  How much do I love thee? My accumulator overflows!

The .dvi file is in a generic 'device independant' vector (?)
graphics format.  Now you need a utility to convert it to whatever
device you actually have.  In this case you will want a dvi to epson
converter (I think there is one called dvitoepson, oddly enough).
There are a number of such utilities at ftp sites.  I suggest 
looking into the drivers written by Nelson Beebe.  They are all 
available in c-source code which is sufficiently well written
that I have gotten at least the postscript section running on 
various different machines without serious problems. 

cheers,  Kevin