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From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Substitute font bug under xdvi
Keywords: xdvi
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.223559.20730@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 22:35:59 GMT
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In article <SRA.91Feb6152625@pessoa.ecs.soton.ac.uk> sra@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stephen Adams) writes:
>The other behaviour of xdvi that I find annoying is that it
>sometimes locks up, eating vast amounts of cpu time.  It
>will not respond to Q and has to be killed manually.  This
>seems to happen immediately after I have accidentally asked
>it redisplay something while latex is running and creating
>the .dvi file.  I assume that it tries to read from a half
>written .dvi file and falls over, but I am only guessing.

It has been fixed (I hope) in patchlevel 11.  The patch has been sent already
to comp.sources.x, but it may be a week or two before it appears, due to a
large backlog.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu