[gnu.emacs] Where is dviselect ?

harperb@cps3xx.egr.msu.edu (Brett Harper) (11/30/89)

Hi, 
   I was trying to print off a copy of the gnu emacs manual the other
day, and our spool queue does not have enough space to accept the
whole postscript document.  I noticed that there was a file called
'split-man' in the document directory, and it contains a reference to
a command called dviselect.  Where can I get this command?
Does anyone have any clues?

Thanks, Brett

Brett Harper

please email to:
harperb@frith.egr.msu.edu

harperb@cps3xx.egr.msu.edu (Brett Harper) (12/01/89)

Since I received so many helpful respones, I figured I would just
post a note of thanks (I have real bad luck mailing to email addresses)

If anyone is reading this that didn't respond the results were:
1. get dviselect from comp.sources
2. use one of the dvi to postscript converters to do the work for you.

I used the second method we have dvi2ps, and it worked nicely:
   dvi2ps -f 1 -t 64 emacs.dvi | lpr    
I found this command in the TeX distribution under the obsolete/mitdrivers
directory, I guess we should install the new one, dvi-2-ps (or something 
like that)

anyway, thanks again  (Just proves that people who spend all day in front
of a electron gun can still be courteous)

Brett Harper

randy@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Longshot) (12/01/89)

In article <5576@cps3xx.UUCP> harperb@cps3xx.egr.msu.edu (Brett Harper) writes:
-I noticed that there was a file called
-'split-man' in the document directory, and it contains a reference to
-a command called dviselect.  Where can I get this command?
-Does anyone have any clues?
-

Please let me know as well, as I need it for proofreading the Elisp manual.

Randy
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montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) (12/01/89)

In article <5576@cps3xx.UUCP> harperb@cps3xx.egr.msu.edu (Brett Harper) writes:
 -I noticed that there was a file called
 -'split-man' in the document directory, and it contains a reference to
 -a command called dviselect.  Where can I get this command?
 -Does anyone have any clues?

I posted dviselect to alt.sources a week or two ago. If it has expired at
your site, or you don't get alt.sources, Let me know and I will mail you the
six shar archives. Alternatively, you can get dviselect as part of the
SeeTeX distribution on expo.lcs.mit.edu in the /contrib directory.

Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)