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

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From: George Chow
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:33
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In article <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
|> Howdy,
|>   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 
|> converting [La]TeX to/from various formats.

Thanks for all the replies. The concensus is the dvi2tty program which actually is
mentioned in the FAQ, in the previewer section. I also found a program called dvitty
which did the same. Thanks.

George
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