Path: utzoo!lsuc!spectrix!yunexus!gen1!yugas!avy
From: avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: tex/dvi/SUPRA
Summary: True if dvi2st is actually the dvist written by A. Moise and T. Ivanco.
Keywords: tex/dvi/hardrive/SUPRA
Message-ID: <777@yugas.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 16:53:24 GMT
References: <1038@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <25159@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Organization: C.R.E.S.S., York University, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3.
Lines: 42
Posted: Fri Mar 18 11:53:24 1988

In article <25159@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
> 
> In article <1038@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, lean@sbcs (Lean L. Loh) writes:
> >
> >Q: I just got dvi2st (PD dvi previewer on the mono ST). From the readme file,
> >   I gather that I can preview on the ST a remote dvi file (located on a 
> >   VAX/UNIX).
> 
> Where is this program available?  Does it work as advertised (i.e., can you
> really preview a remote file on a Unix machine from your ST without
> downloading it)?

It is true!
DVIST (and please use this name for it) version 3.0 has a built
in client software to interface with a Unix or OS-9/68000 server across an
8 bit serial interface. We normally use UniTerm to connect to our host
computer at 9600 baud and go through the Edit-TeX cycle to produce a
printable .DVI file. Then from UniTerm we can invoke the DVIST.TTP program with
the following parameters (assuming the foo.dvi is your TeX.dvi file file)

	r:foo -fd:\fonts,a:\fonts,r:/usr/st/fonts

DVIST will recognize the drive prefix 'r:' as being a remote drive,
therefore it will start the unix (or OS-9/68000) server and access foo.dvi
using random access file I/O as needed (there is no need to download the
entire DVI file). In addition, the .PK fonts files may be read across the link
or from the ST's mass storage devices. In the above example when a font file
is not found on the ST's RAM disk (drive D: folder \fonts) it will search in
drive A:\fonts. If still not found it will access the font file on the server.
This approach enable users to have the fonts stored locally while
processing TeX file remotely.

When processing is done the server will automatically terminate the server
program so that when the user re-enters terminal mode he/she will see the
host's prompt.

If there there is sufficient demand I will repost the dvist driver.
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