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In article <2122@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, robert@umbc5.umbc.edu (Robert Rybczynski) writes...
>Does anyone have a working DVI(TeX) previewer for VMS?  If you have it 
>in a somewhat distributable form, please send mail or post to let me 
>know how I can get it.
>                                   Thanks much,
>                                        Robert
> robert@umbc5.umbc.edu

"VMS" is too broad a description.  It all depends on the output device you
want to use or, for workstations, on the windowing system.

Most generically, Andrew Treverow [sp?] developed a DVI display program which
can drive a wide variety of graphics terminals, including ReGIS and Tektronix
devices.  It's been discussed a number of times in TeXhax, but I don't know
off-hand where you can get a copy.  One problem is that it's written in some-
thing like Modula-2, which few people have a compiler for.

For VAXStations running DECWindows, you can use any of several X previewers.
I've heard of at least two, texx and texx2 (or something like that).  Sorry,
again I can't tell you where to find them.

I have a previewer for VAXStations running VWS.  It's called DVIDIS.  You can
get a copy by anonymous FTP from VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU; get (in BINARY mode!)
the BACKUP saveset DVIDIS.A, and (in ASCII mode) the file FIXREC.C.  Read the
instructions at the top of FIXREC.C as to how to use it to reset the record
size on DVIDIS.A.  There is also a FIXREC.EXE in the directory if you don't
want to bother re-compiling FIXREC.C.

DVIDIS is also available on SPAN and JANET, in the UK TeX archives, on a
recent DECUS tape (sorry, I'm not sure of the number - it's in a package with
all the latest and greatest TeX stuff) and probably in other places as well.

I CANNOT DISTRIBUTE DVIDIS BY MAIL!!!  Please don't ask.

Sources are NOT available.
							-- Jerry