Bug#412611: texlive-base-bin: xdvi doesn't support gzipped files
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reminder. Although next release (texlive 2007) will
>> feature more or less only pdf documentation, I will check on this
>> script.
>
> Note that it doesn't matter what texlive contains: plenty of other
> packages contain DVI docs too (in my case I was trying to read files
> from cook-doc).
Yep. And if David Kastrup succeeds with his "ceterum censeo", even
TeXLive might switch back to dvi.
Anyway, as a workaround it should be possible to use the wrapper script
from tetex (/usr/bin/xdvi) with texlive, just copy it to
/usr/local/bin. Maybe the name of the real executable needs to be
changed (one of the last lines), I'm not sure at the moment.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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