SYNOPSIS

Several TEX DVI translators are available. They all expect the name of the DVI file on the command line, and the extension .dvi can always be omitted. As illustrated below, they issue a one-line identifier message and, if no command line arguments are given, type a -style1usage message. Some of them may have additional help files. On case-sensitive file systems, file names may be expected to be entirely in lower case, so you should should type dvialw instead of DVIALW.

For all except DVIBIT (which is intended for interactive display), the output file will be given the name of the .dvi file, but extension .dvi-xxx, where xxx is the three-character mnemonic for the translator program. If long extensions are not supported, then .xxx is used. For DVIBIT, output is on stdout which defaults to the terminal; it may be redirected in the usual fashion by >filename on the command line (e.g. dvibit foo >foo.out).

As the .dvi file is processed, a list of errors is printed on the standard error unit stderr; this list is also saved in a file with extension .dvi-log, or if long extensions are not supported by the host, then extension .err is used. This file is not created if there are no errors. As each page is printed, the physical page number and the TEX page number is printed without a following character return; after the last page, the string [OK] is printed, followed by a carriage return. This gives a convenient progress report to the terminal. If it is not wanted, then the error output can be redirected into a file (possibly the null device) (e.g. dvixxx foo &foo.err), or the -q option can be given to suppress it.

The order of command options and DVI file names is not significant; all switch values apply to all DVI files. DVI files are processed in order from left to right.

The available translators are as follows:

DVIALW
(Apple LaserWriter)
DVIBIT
Version 3.10 BBN BitGraph terminal
DVICAN
Canon LBP-8 A2 laser printer
DVIGD
Golden Dawn Golden Laser 100 printer
DVIIMP
Imagen imPRESS-language laser printer family
DVIJEP
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Plus
DVIJET
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
DVIL75
DEC LA75 144 dpi printer
DVIM72
Apple Imagewriter 72 dpi printer
DVIMAC
Apple Imagewriter 144 dpi printer
DVIMPI
MPI Sprinter 72 dpi printer
DVIO72
OKIDATA Pacemark 2410 72 dpi printer
DVIOKI
OKIDATA Pacemark 2410 144 dpi printer
DVIPRX
Printronix 60h × 72v dpi printer
DVITOS
Toshiba P-1351 180 dpi printer
DVITYP or DVITYPE
DVI Translator for human-readable output