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Re: [Debian]: Xdvi meckert bei gzipten Dokumenten



On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 02:25:18PM +0200, Markus Mueller wrote:
> markus@eris[/usr/doc/texmf/latex/general]$ xdvi guide.dvi.gz 
> xdvi.bin: Not a DVI file
> 
> Ungepackte Dokumente lassen sich einwandfrei ansehen.
> 
> In der Manpage von xdvi wird zum Thema gzip folgendes erwaehnt:
> 
>        If a file name is given (as opposed to a  shell  command),
>        if  that  file  name ends in `.Z'' or `.gz'', and if the
>        first two bytes of the file  indicate  that  it  was  com­
>        pressed  with  compress(1)  or gzip(1), respectively, then
>        the file is first uncompressed with uncompress -c or  gun­
>        zip  -c,  respectively.   This  is  preferred over using a
>        backtick to call the command directly, since  you  do  not
>        have  to  specify -allowshell and since it allows for path
>        searching.
Kurz davor in der Manpage steht aber, daß sich das nur auf \special's
bezieht, die zum Darstellen von .eps files dienen. Daher funktioniert
dann z.B. die Anzeige von
 \includegraphics{bild.eps.gz}


Nils

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