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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
- Date: 28 Aug 92 03:37:04 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- References: <1992Aug28.010819.1940@umr.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.010819.1940@umr.edu>, mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
- |> Our local IBM mainframe has a 3820 laster printer on it that can handle
- |> duplex printing. The mainframe has TeX and dvi support for the 3820, but
- |> I'd rather use the TeX system on our unix system. My problem is moving the
- |> dvi files from the ascii based unix system to the ebcdic based ibm mainframe.
- |>
- |> I've done a little of of looking and asking around, but can't seem to find
- |> anything that looks like it would be useful for making an easy transition
- |> between the systems.
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- You don't say that you have tried to simply transport the dvi files and
- that you've failed. Have you tried simply binary transporting them?
-
- (Dvi files are completely byte-based, so it should work. In the past I've
- moved dvi files from an Atari-st to a Unix system, and they printed
- perfectly.)
-
- |> Mike Castle
-
- Victor.
-