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DVIDOC is a postprocessor for TeX DVI files that generates output
for character devices like terminals and line printers.

- It isn't really a previewer because the output will not have page
breaks in the same place as the high resolution version.  It however
does get interword spacing right. It might be useful for documents that
need to be generated in two versions, for high-resolution devices and
for line printers. Briefly, you put \input docmac at the top of the
file before TeXing.  (The macro file tells TeX to use a fixed width
font everywhere.) You remove this command before you do the high
resolution version.

- It was modified from its last incarnation as a Pyramid version.  The
comments indicate that it originated from OSU in 1983. The original is
based on Dvitype.

- It has only been tested in 4.2 BSD and Sun 2.0 systems. It should not
be difficult to figure out what changes need to be made for your local
environment.  You will need the following programs: tangle, pxp (if
your Pascal doesn't have an otherwise clause for case statements), pc,
pltotf (to generate the tfm file. Yes this is probably ancient but we
still have Unix TeX 1.3), weave and tex (if you want to read the
documentation).

- Since this was a learning experience in WEB for me, I won't be good
at answering questions about the innards. But I will receive bug
reports and fixes gratefully.

- The program is based largely on the work of Don Knuth, David Fuchs
and Howard Trickey. If anything broke, it was probably my hack.

	Ken
	ken@rochester.arpa or ken@cs.rochester.edu
	..!rochester!ken
	January 1987