Well,... It's been so long I forgot how to reply to the LIST :-))... This is already old news, thanks to everyone's contributions... but I thought I would send it again anyway, just for the practice. (Yesterday I sent it, but just to Don Simons, thanks to Outlook Express :-)
Regards Joel Hunsberger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hunsbergers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Don Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [TeX-music] dviconcat > Greetings!! > > I have used dviconcat (the Windows Port) for various experiments in the > past, and seem to recall having to use the full file name plus extension. > This got my curiosity up, and I found that there is 'a version' of the c > code for dviconcat in the CTAN archives: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvibook/Dviconcat/dviconcat.c > > ...the general directory is: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvibook/Dviconcat/ > > A Full archive seems to be at: > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/dviware/dvibook/Dviconcat.tar.gz or at > http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/scripts/CTAN/dviware/dvibook/Dviconcat.tar.gz > > The Man Page is very brief, and no help for your question. However, I did > browse around in the old C code, and (in particular) did not see any place > in the general flow of events where any action is taken to 'tack on' a .dvi > extension if one is not provided. So, I'm thinking that this program > probably needs exact (full-fledged) file names. > > Now, since we have the code in the archives... It is tempting to do some > kind of GUI Front End, maybe in Java, so every system could use it. > Wouldn't that be a great learning exercise!! I'm thinking there is a lot of > knowledge about the DVI file here in this program that might be useful to > learn, or manipulate this process to do something similarly grand. > > Joel Hunsberger > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "TeX-Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:15 PM > Subject: RE: [TeX-music] dviconcat > > > > The syntzx you gave is correct; I use it all the time. I always use > > filenames that explicitly end in .dvi although I haven't tested whether > > that's essential. > > > > --Don Simons > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:16 AM > > > To: TeX-Music > > > Subject: [TeX-music] dviconcat > > > > > > > > > Dear friends, > > > > > > some time ago, someone on this list sent me the DOS binary of > > > dviconca.exe along with instructions for use to the following effect: > > > > > > dviconca -o outputfile infile1 infile2 infile3 > > > > > > I've been trying this without useful results; all I get is DVI files > > > of size 0 bytes, or an output file containing nothing but infile1, or > > > ten-megabyte monstrosities (from two 20k input files) which YAP > > > refuses to open. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here? > > > > > > TIA > > > Eva > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TeX-music mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TeX-music mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
