Re: xdvi vs. poxdvi?

Uli Fahrenberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin Fairbairns, Aug 2, 09:27 +0100:

[ P. Hirschhorn: ]

>> Was poxdvi actually eliminated, or might it (or some near equivalent) 
>> still be lurking somewhere under a different name?  If it's gone, might 
>> it not be too hard for it to return in some future release?
>
> i've never heard of poxdvi.  given that it's not in tetex 1 or tetex 2
> (both of which i have self-built copies of, here) i'm slightly
> confused by your "eliminated".  was it in 0.99x?

It is part of the tetex-xdvi RedHat rpm package included in Fedora Core,as 
are "oxdvi" and "pxdvi":

[uli@quotient ~]> ls /usr/bin/*xdvi
/usr/bin/oxdvi  /usr/bin/poxdvi  /usr/bin/pxdvi  /usr/bin/xdvi
---1--quotient.math.aau.dk--/user/uli
[uli@quotient ~]> rpm -qif /usr/bin/poxdvi
Name        : tetex-xdvi                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.0.2                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 21.3                          Build Date: Wed 19 Jan 2005 04:59:05 PM CET
Install Date: Wed 02 Feb 2005 08:19:33 AM CET      Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM: tetex-2.0.2-21.3.src.rpm
Size        : 1909644                          License: distributable
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 20 Jan 2005 05:30:16 PM CET, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.tug.org/teTeX/
Summary     : An X viewer for DVI files.


More I don't know.

Cheers,
Uli


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