Re: Adding a style to TeX
Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au> writes:
DM> While I'm at it, is there any way to view a compressed dvi file without
DM> having to decompress it? I have not had any luck with gunzip blah.dvi.gz
DM> | xdvi (it just pops up xdvi's open dialog box). I presume there is some
DM> way to do it, but I can't for the life of me work it out.
gunzip normally decompresses a file to another file; nothing is
printed on standard output. The correct incant is probably something
closer to 'gunzip -c file.dvi.gz | xdvi -', but I'm not sure if xdvi
can read from standard input or not. (I suspect it doesn't.) More
useful, I've found, is Debian's 'see' command, which feeds a file
through appropriate filters and viewers based on its MIME type to be
able to see it. It's in the mime-support package on my potato box;
I'd run 'see foo.dvi.gz' to be able to view a gzipped DVI file.
DM>
DM> Cheers,
DM>
DM> damon
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