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Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC

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From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:37
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In article <1992Aug28.010819.1940@umr.edu>, mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
|> Our local IBM mainframe has a 3820 laster printer on it that can handle 
|> duplex printing.  The mainframe has TeX and dvi support for the 3820, but
|> I'd rather use the TeX system on our unix system.  My problem is moving the
|> dvi files from the ascii based unix system to the ebcdic based ibm mainframe.
|> 
|> I've done a little of of looking and asking around, but can't seem to find
|> anything that looks like it would be useful for making an easy transition
|> between the systems.

You don't say that you have tried to simply transport the dvi files and
that you've failed. Have you tried simply binary transporting them?

(Dvi files are completely byte-based, so it should work. In the past I've
moved dvi files from an Atari-st to a Unix system, and they printed
perfectly.)

|> Mike Castle

Victor.
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