seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) (12/11/89)
i recently pulled the 'texbin.tar' binaries from vgr.brl.mil, and extracted the dvi previewer 'texsgi' for the 4d. the binary runs ok. unfortunately, the previewer is extremely slow. it appears to be reopening a font file every time the display font changes in a sequential pass through the current page. for a document with a lot of math and italics, it looks like it's doing hundreds of fopens() per page. the "-a" flag purportedly enables font caching, but produces no speedup or extra memory usage (that i can detect). can anyone tell me: 1) if the version i have (1.0) can do font caching, or, if not, 2) how to get an update of it that can? thanks much in advance. seth teller seth@miro.berkeley.edu ucbvax!miro.berkeley.edu!seth