1XDVIZILLA(1)                General Commands Manual               XDVIZILLA(1)
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NAME

6       xdvizilla - Helper application for running xdvi
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SYNOPSIS

9       xdvizilla [-no-rm] file
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DESCRIPTION

12       Presently  (October  2002),  Mozilla has some bugs with helper applica‐
13       tions: it passes gzipped (.gz) files directly to the helper application
14       without  uncompressing,  and  it  passes compressed (.Z) files as empty
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17       To work around these problems, xdvizilla was written to look  at  files
18       and decompress them correctly (depending on their file types).
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20       In  addition,  some  sites produced tarred dvi files (including the dvi
21       file as well as some included figures), and xdvizilla correctly handles
22       those files as well.
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OPTIONS

25       Only one option is supported:
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27       -no-rm Normally  xdvizilla  will  remove  file  before finishing.  This
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INSTALLATION

31       In addition to installing xdvizilla  in  a  directory  on  the  default
32       search  path,  it  is  necessary  to  set it up as a helper application
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35       For Netscape 4.x, add the following lines to the mailcap file:
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37            application/x-dvi;      xdvi -safer %s
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41       For Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.x, or Mozilla 1.x, add the following lines
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48       In  addition,  it  would  be useful to check that the following line is
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51            type=application/x-dvi  exts="dvi"      desc="TeX dvi file"
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SEE ALSO

55       X(1), xdvi(1).
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AUTHOR

58       Paul Vojta, U.C. Berkeley.
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