mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (10/14/89)
Announcing the availability of the first BETA_TEST version of a new TeX dvi file previewer for the Microsoft Windows environment. This is a Windows version of my dvivga previewer. It should run under Windows on any display, though it will produce output stretched vertically if you have a display without square pixels. It looks really bad only on CGA. On my 600x800 vga display it is quite lovely - you can view many files with 145 d.p.i. fonts that look really great (click on that size before opening a file). If you are interested in helping me test this thing please send e-mail to me at mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu. You will need Internet anonymous ftp capability to get the fonts from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, unless you already have dvivga fonts. The final release version of dvimswin will be freely distributable for non-commecial purposes. The beta-test version is not intended to get beyond those I send it to, as the possibility of it being bug-free is zero, though **I** can't find any bugs. Just as for dvivga, and other Windows programs in general, the faster the computer the better. On a plain XT it will be very slow indeed. Doug McDonald