Displaying DVI

For Netscape on the Suns

To display DVI files under netscape on the Unix machines, select the Options menu, then General Preferences, then Helpers. You'll get a list titled MIME Configuration Files. Edit (or add) the entry for application/x-dvi to say: /opt/cs/bin/xdvi %s (the %s is required). After you exit from the options menu, your netscape should be able to display DVI files.

Printing

The command "dvips" takes a named DVI file as input and produces a postscript file as output. This can then be given as an argument to "lpr". See "man dvips" to figure out how to print just a few of the pages.

Microsoft Windows

Here is a complete description of how to display DVI files under Windows. (Found by Ned Carreon).

Other browsers

Any browser you use should be configurable and have the ability to display different MIME types, you just need to figure out how. Once you know how to configure it, simply tell it to invoke /opt/cs/bin/xdvi on the data.

Other operating systems

Generally, xdvi is available somewhere on almost any Unix system, though you may need to use the find command to find it. I don't know about Windows and Windows/NT, so if you find out how to do it, please let me know (esb@hawaii.edu) so I can add it to this page.