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From: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
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Subject: re: Xdvi for X11
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Date: 13 Oct 88 23:42:28 GMT
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I ported the X10R3 xdvi to X11R2. I cleaned it up some, made it more
portable (after feedback from testers around the world) and submitted
it for X11R3.

It will be in X11R3; it is available via anonymous ftp from:
	expo.lcs.mit.edu ~ftp/contrib/xdvi.tar.Z
	SIPB.MIT.EDU, ~/ftp/pub/x11r3dvi.tar.Z

It has been tested on the Sun (bw and color); DEC VS2/VS2000 with
qvss, qdss, or sm under Ultrix and 4.3BSD; IBM PC/RT with apa16 under
4.3; and others. I am continuing development on it; for example, this
version uses XPutImage to draw the characters, since XImage is FOUR
TIMES FASTER than XCopyArea from a Pixmap even after the pixmap is
cached... (this is on the VS2000 using the MIT server, and under Xibm
on the RT, you mileage may vary.) I intend to change this once the
servers start doing the right thing (maybe even in X11R3...)

bugs to me; note that this one fixes a number of bugs in the X10R3
version, such as disappearing lines and the `underline glitch' at full
resolution.

				Mark Eichin
			<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
		SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' 

ps. If you must get it via email, I can send it out as 3 files, which
are tar|compress|btoa|split -500, totalling about 80K. Do your best to
ftp it first though; I respond quickly to bug-fixes but slowly to
requests for mail. :-)