Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-10.1
> Severity: minor
>
> xdvi, startet from a terminal, gives a number of warning messages which
> are mostly unnecessary, such as 
> xdvi: First page of DVI file
>   or
> xdvi: Last page of DVI file
>   or
> xdvi: Horizontal scrolling not possible
>
> Additionally, it beeps for every such message. To me, this is a nuisance
> without added benefit.

Hm, strange.  This is not the case here.  Can you please describe in
detail how you invoke xdvi and what you do in it?

What's the output of the following commands:

which xdvi
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer