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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: transfer of DVI-file from IBM-PC to VAX
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.212207.27170@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 21:22:07 GMT
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|I tried to tranfer a dvi-file created on a IBM-PC to a VAX.
|Beim verarbeiten auf der VAX bekomme ich allerdings immer
|die Fehlermeldung Invalid DVI-File Format.
|
|I assumed that DVI-file formats are identical on different
|systems.?? 

Yes, but when you transfer a binary file between some systems the
remainder of the last fixed size block is padded with nulls. DVI format
requires at least 4 octal 337 bytes at the end.  You need to pad the
block with octal 337.