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In article <1993Jan21.085912.134592@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>, vaxinf@V36.CHEMIE.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE () writes:
> 
> In article <1993Jan21.135812.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>, brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan) writes:
> |>	One of my TeX afficiandos tells me that the DVIALW driver
> |>	is sqwarking at his DVI file (even though TeX didn't barf)
> |>	
> |>	We're using the TeX 3.1 (PD VMS 3.3/DECUS) with DVIALW driver 2.10b
> |>
> I have similar problems with DVIALW...

I have given up on DVIALW due to mysterious problems like this.  I was
also getting fatal errors in findpost() once in a while.  If I made
some superficial change to the document that made a slightly different
output (rephrasing a sentence, expanding a contraction, changing
punctuation, etc.) the problem would just as mysteriously disappear.
We never found the cause or a better solution to this problem. 
Instead, a couple of years ago we switched to DVIPS.  We haven't had a
single problem with it yet.

It is bundled with TeX on one of the DECUS library tapes.  Although
I'm not quite sure where this may reside out there in cyberspace, I'm
sure someone must carry it on an FTP site.  You might try the
comp.text.tex FAQ before you go bugging the following people.  For
what it's worth, here's the address of the guy who wrote the VMS
version's installation notes: 

|Robert Schneider                     |  Internet: robert@perv.pe.utexas.edu|
|Department of Petroleum Engineering  |  BITNET: pefv673@utchpc             |
|University of Texas at Austin        |  THEnet: PERV::ROBERT               |

Also, the address of the guy who (apparently) did the initial VMS
port:

Xev Gittler
GTE Laboratories, Inc.
xev@bunny.gte.com

There are all kinds of other reasons for using DVIPS instead of
DVIALW.  Grok this list of features:

	- Automatic generation of fonts via MF whenever needed
	- EPSF PostScript files complete with automatic determination
		of graphics size (see epsf.tex)
	- Literal PostScript includes complete with definitions
	- Non-EPSF PostScript graphics with user-specified scaling
	- TPIC specials
	- Correct budgeting of printer memory
	- Output at 300 or 400 DPI (or any other DPI)
	- Use of PostScript fonts
        - Use of virtual fonts
	- Use of popen on output file.

By the way, does anyone know if there is a later version of this out
there?  Just trying to keep up-to-date.  Mine appears to be version
5.47 which came out in February of 91.

Ben.
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