GOATHUNTER@WKUVX1.BITNET ("Hunter Goatley, Western Ky. University") (02/21/91)
Date sent: 20-FEB-1991 17:15 CST
I have a new VMS port of DVIDVI available for anyone interested. For those
who don't know, DVIDVI is a program that converts .DVI files to new .DVI
files with changes; for example, you can extract all the odd pages, shift
the output, etc. In fact, I have included a simple DCL procedure to do
poor-man's duplex printing, using DVIDVI to create two .DVI files, one with
the odd pages, and one with the even pages in reverse order.
This new port was necessary because DVIPS v5.47, as well as the latest DVITYPE
from the DECUS TeX collection, expects the .DVI to be a "normal" VMS binary
file (fixed-length, 512-byte records). The original DVIDVI, which had no
special VMS stuff in it, created Stream_LF files which DVIPS v5.47 choked on.
I added the code to make DVIDVI under VMS create the fixed length files
(which the DECUS TeX, etc., create). This version should work under UNIX
without modification (it's written in C, naturally).
The new port is available from VMSSERV@WKUVX1. Bitnet sites running Jnet
can retrieve it with the following command:
$ SEND VMSSERV@WKUVX1 VMSDUMP DVIDVI.PACKAGE
Non-Jnet sites can retrieve it by sending a mail message to VMSSERV@WKUVX1
with the *body*: SEND DVIDVI.PACKAGE. Also available: DVIDVI.EXE and
DVIDVI.UUE (uuencoded .EXE).
DVIDVI was written by Tomas G. Rokicki.
Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VAX Systems Programmer E-mail: GOATHUNTER@WKUVX1.bitnet
ACRS, Western Kentucky University Voice: 502-745-5251
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