NAME
xdvizilla - Helper application for running xdvi
SYNOPSIS
xdvizilla
[-no-rm]
file
DESCRIPTION
Presently (October 2002), Mozilla has some bugs with helper applications:
it passes gzipped
(.gz)
files directly to the helper application without uncompressing, and it
passes compressed
(.Z)
files as empty files.
To work around these problems,
xdvizilla
was written to look at files and decompress them correctly (depending on
their file types).
In addition, some sites produced tarred
dvi
files (including the
dvi
file as well as some included figures), and
xdvizilla
correctly handles those files as well.
OPTIONS
Only one option is supported:
-no-rm
Normally
xdvizilla
will remove
file
before finishing. This option inhibits this behavior.
INSTALLATION
In addition to installing
xdvizilla
in a directory on the default search path, it is necessary to set it up
as a helper application within the browser.
For
R Netscape 4.x ,
add the following lines to the
mailcap
file:
application/x-dvi; xdvi -safer %s
application/x-dvi-tar; xdvizilla -no-rm %s
For
R Netscape 6.x ,
R Netscape 7.x ,
or
R Mozilla 1.x ,
add the following lines to the
mailcap
file:
application/x-dvi; xdvizilla %s
application/x-dvi-tar; xdvizilla %s
In addition, it would be useful to check that the following line is included
in the
mime.types
file:
type=application/x-dvi exts="dvi" desc="TeX dvi file"
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Paul Vojta, U.C. Berkeley.
