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In article <7844@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Yesterday I FTPed and downloaded UniTerm v2.0a (thanks, whats-yer-name at
>Oregon State) to find, to my chagrin, that the documentation is in DVI format.

You're welcome.  As the one who made UniTerm available for FTP, I have
had a few other such queries about the DVI documentation file.  So:

>Well.. what's DVI? How do I get this file full of gibberish to make some
>sense? Be warned that I have no printer..

DVI is the output of the TeX (or LaTeX, in this case) text formatter.
It is a device-independent format for bitmapped display devices (such
as Sun displays, Apple Laserwriters (PostScript), Imagen laser printers
(imPress), etc.  Typically, one runs the DVI file through a program
which converts it to some device-specific format.

Simon Poole's Users Guide (about 65 pages) for UniTerm 2.0a prints out
beautifully on our Imagen laser printer, but not everyone can print
DVI files.  Luckily, we have here a program which converts DVI to
ordinary text.  The result is not very pretty, and requires more than
80 columns to print out, but it is easier to read than gibberish.

Get the README file (anonymous FTP on cs.orst.edu) to see which files
contain what (there is no need to retrieve them all).

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