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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: viewer for vt100
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.201458.29145@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <1990Dec11.184234.23689@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1831@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 20:14:58 GMT

In article <1831@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wargaski@nwu.edu writes:
>In article <1990Dec11.184234.23689@ucselx.sdsu.edu>, ercu@ucselx.sdsu.edu
>(Ercument Canver) writes:
>|> is there an ftp site where I could get a viewer for a vt100 terminal?
>
>There's a program called dvi2tty (or dvitty) in the TeX distribution.
>Unfortunately, it requires a Pascal compiler :-(  Is there a C version
>somewhere (I've been poking around for one for some time and haven't
>been able to find one)?

There is a program called dvi2vdu out there that handles a variety of
terminals (VT100, Tek4010, etc.).  It was originally written in modula, but
has been translated to C.  It is available on simtel20 (I think.)

                                Happy hunting.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
