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Re: DVI-ASCII

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From: Peter Vanroose
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 11:48
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In article <92295.091535HBX@psuvm.psu.edu>, Terry Harrison writes:
|> i wish to distribute my TeXed lecture notes prior to class.  however, sending
|> the output of DVIPS or DVIHP is too expensive for students to print.  (laser
|> printing at our university costs 25 cents per page).  if i can use a DVI
|> program that produces ASCII output, the students can print for free (to them)
|> on a line printer connected to our mainframe.
|> 

There exist DVI drivers for such line printers, too!
Look, e.g., at the Beebe drivers (univ. of Waterloo), written in C.
Then you can supply the students with the output file of this DVI-to-...
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                                 Peter Vanroose
                                 Electrotechnical Department, ESAT
                                 K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
                                 VANROOSE@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
                                 tel.    +32 16 220931
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From: vanroose@memlinck.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Peter Vanroose)
Subject: Re: DVI-ASCII
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