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From: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: CommonTex
Message-ID: <18336@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:38:15 GMT
References: <43239@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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!



a .dvi file is NOT, I repeat NOT a printable file.  "dvi" means Device
Independent, and is an intermediary file between TeX and a printer driver that
is tailored for a particular output device.

Thus, you need a printer driver for your printer.  This printer driver
will read in the .dvi file and output a file suitable for sending to your
printer.

				-- Kevin --


Kevin Klop		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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