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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DosTeX
Message-ID: <45900181@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 15:54:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Dec 16 09:54:00 1988


>In article <781@wasatch.UUCP> you write:
>>	In return, I am asking the
>>net (collectively) for a previewer for an EGA card (with hi-res color monitor),
>>more extensive fonts (I need ..\240\cmti12,cmmi12,cmr12, and cmmi8...) and
>>(yea, I know its a big wish list (-: )  a .dvi translator for the NEC pinwriter
>>5300 using 24-pin's for [virtually] camera ready output...


>I picked up a copy of DVIVGA, an EGA/VGA previewer through *some* anonymous
>ftp several weeks ago, and have been using it with much delight since then.
>Upon reading your message, I looked through the doc files and my notes, and
>for the life of me I can't figure out where I got ahold of the thing.

Ah, I am the author of DVIVGA. It is available by ftp from
b.scs.uiuc.edu, also known as 128.174.90.2 for those whose nameservers
are naughty. DVIVGA1.arc is the executable and doc files. Dvivga2 through
dvivga8 are font files. Dvivga9 is the source. There was posted there for
a SHORT time a copy with a bug in it. The correct executable is 75463
bytes long when unpacked. (The bug only bites if you DON'T have an '87
chip and DO display pages where text runs across the top or bottom
margin of the page - not the screen, the page.)

I installed a disk cache program on my PC yesterday and noticed a 
60% speedup in displaying the first page of a file.

If you have a copy of this thing in an archive or on a bulletin board,
please do me a favor and check the version you have.

Also, in the same place is a TeX previewer for the IBM8514a display,
in native 768x1024 mode.


Doug McDonald (mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)