Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC

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From: Carl Douglas Mueller
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:01

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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.
>
Maybe I'm off base here but I thought the whole point of the dvi files
was that they were DeVice Independent -- so that NO change is ever
necessary moving them from one system to another.  I'd think that the
drivers on the EBCDIC system would handle any translation.

                   RIGHT?
>
>Mike Castle

                      Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)

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From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
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