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From: cczdao@clan.clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: dvitovdu for M/120 -- is there one, and where can I get it?
Summary: it's on its way
Keywords: dvitovdu
Message-ID: <16352@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jan 90 12:01:22 GMT
References: <1782@clyde.concordia.ca>
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Reply-To: cczdao@clan.UUCP (David Osborne)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
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In article <1782@clyde.concordia.ca>
smw@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
>It turns out that we have something called "dvitovdu"; this file came
>on the TeX distribution tape, but it's Modula source and we don't have
>a Modula compiler...
>
>Does anyone know if there's a version available anywhere (even if we
>have to pay for it!) in Fortran, Pascal or C?

the Modula-2 version of DVItoVDU has been heroically hand-recoded in
C by Mark Hewitt and his colleagues at Kernel Technology in Leeds,
England, and the company are very generously going to make the sources
publically available.  i've been doing the beta testing for Mark and
we hope to have a first release available "real soon now", once my
latest mods and fixes are incorporated into his sources (i am working
on the final changes at this moment). i haven't compiled the program
on our M/2000, as it's not our TeX machine, but Mark has tested it on
a Sequent under BSD and on a System V machine; i've been using a CCI
Power6/32 running SysV.
    i'll be installing the sources in the UK's TeX Archive at Aston
University and sending copies to TeX archives in the US (Washington,
Clarkson).  there'll be announcements in the UKTeX Digest, TeXhax
and comp.text when it's available.

dave osborne
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