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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
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Subject: Re: What's DVI?
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Date: 9 Jan 88 17:00:55 GMT
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.DVI files are 'Device Independent' files as produced by the TeX formatter.
You then need to find a machine sommewhere which has TeX, and which has a
DVI to specific device 'conversion' program (aka 'driver').  (DVIST which
was posted some time ago won't hack it, because UG.DVI references font
files which were not present with DVIST.  I have heard rumours of a
DVI2PS program which will convert UG.DVI to a (huge) PostScript file,
which ought to be more amenable to being (painfully) battered into a
legible form, in the absence of a printer.  I haven't seen DVI2PS myself,
though.

Simon, if you're listening, how about putting out a 'human reabdibledable' form
of UG.DVI?