Re: DVI format

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From: peterson
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1986 13:46

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In article <4041@lanl.ARPA>, gjk@lanl.ARPA (Greg) writes:
> I'm interesting in writing a program to convert DVI files to 
> Does anyone have an explanation of the DVI format?

There are two different interpretations for DVI: troff DVI and
TeX DVI.  They are quite different.  Troff DVI is ASCII and TeX
DVI is binary in addition to having quite different contents.
-- 
James Peterson
peterson@mcc.arpa  or  ...sally!im4u!milano!peterson

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