I tried to reproduce this bug you reported ("tetex-bin: xdvi fails on
some http specials"), but at least with tetex-bin version 1.0.6-7 I can
view the file you sent without any problems. Could you check if this bug
is still present if you upgrade tetex-bin?
Thanks,
Adrian
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