Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has a slick answer to this: > > I have lots of systems around here running Debian (usually slink / > slink+). I decided to set up teTeX to do some work at home -- No > trouble. The question is that I want to actually read some of the docs I > usually take for granted. > > The teTeX docs are usually a lot of .dvi.gz files, and they are tied > together with a couple of web pages. > > I'm having a hard time setting up lynx or netscape to gunzip them *and* > send them to xdvi. > > Can anyone suggest a method other than gunzipping everything once > installed? Any suggestions on a better .dvi previewer? Am I forgetting > something stupid about named pipes, or why I can't use them in the MIME > types editor in Netscape? I wouldn't really recommend using named pipes, as many programs these days will only read from `regular' files. However, you can just create a regular file to dump a dvi file into, then run xdvi on it. A simple example of this would be something like (the `$$' is a variable representing the process ID of the script): #!/bin/sh gunzip -c $1 > /tmp/tmp.$$ xdvi /tmp/tmp.$$ rm -f /tmp/tmp.$$ HTH -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If it jams, force it. If / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ it breaks, it needed \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) replacing anyway. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org