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From: akk2@ur-tut (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX DVI previewer for PS/2
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Date: 1 Jul 88 16:48:28 GMT
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In article <47700018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I have written a TeX screen previewer for the IBM PS/2 family. This thing
>is based on the driver family by Nelson Beebe et.al of Utah. It  requires
>a system with 512K and a VGA or MCGA screen (monochrome or color) or
>a clone with a mode 17 480x640xblack and white. I will eventually
>put the source code in his FTP-able archive. I could post the binary
>in comp.binaries.ibm.pc if anyone is interested. 

Yes!!!  I sure would like it posted and I'm sure there are others who would
love to have it.  Could you also mail the binaries to the simtel20 archives
so that people with ftp access can get it from there ?  I forget the mailing
address of the keeper of the msdos files on simtel20.  Perhaps someone out
there remember ?

>However, to use it 
>you would need the fonts. They can be gotten by ftp from Utah. The
>problem is that to use it well you need lots of fonts, including 
>at least those at 92, 100, 110, and 121 dots per inch, plus a few others.
>Utah does not have 92 and 110. Without those, it will work, but
>does a lot of sluggish font substitutions. I have no way to let people
>get these, and they are too big to post. 

What fonts does it use ? .PXL, .GF or .PK ?  Would be nice if it were .PK
fonts, cause the DVI driver I use also uses .PK fonts (Thanks, Beebe!) and
would be nice not to have .PXL fonts also on the already cramped hard disk.

Maybe some kind soul could also have these fonts available for anonymous ftp ?



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