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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: dvi2iff.tar.Z in louie.udel.edu
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Date: 25 May 89 16:10:59 GMT
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In article <5134@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (people helping people) writes:
>[describes getting dvi2iff]
>Is it meant for Unix or just the Amiga?
Oh my, how your past can come back to haunt you.
dvi2iff is a little hack i wrote about 2.5 or so years ago. 
It converts dvi files to iff files (compressed format, it uses
the simple RLE that was provided by EA). It includes the (old) IFF sources
hacked to run on a sun. It will expect you to have lots of .pxl files
hanging around (if i remember right). The basic main program, dvi2iff
or main.c (i forget) is a hacked version of the old X windows xdvi
previewer. 
   I never got it to run on an Amiga. That was more a matter of my 
unhappiness with LC v3.03 than anything else.It would however produce IFF files
that were right, and that you could look at with iff viewers. 
   Given the amount of work to make it do simple previewing, and 
given a copy of the AmigaTeX demo Tom sent me, I got smart and bought AmigaTeX.
   I hope you can use it for something, though ...
ron