Re: Stripping a .dvi down to text, how to...

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From: hank
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:43

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In article <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
>   I have a largish (~130 pages) .dvi files that I need to convert to text.
> I don't have access to the .tex source files. Is there any tools available
> to do this? I've gone through the FAQ and the closest thing I found was 

If you have access to a PC running MSDOS or OS/2, then dvispell from the
emTeX distribution may be a good choice. Look on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
pub/os2/all/emtex/betatest/

It will not produce a TeX file, but will produce a text file. Math will require
considerable editing.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

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