xdvizilla(1)

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 com

pressed (.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 (includ

ing 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 finish

ing. 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 ap

plication within the browser.

For 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 Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.x, or 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 follow

ing line is included in the mime.types file:

type=application/x-dvi exts="dvi" desc="TeX dvi

file"

SEE ALSO

X(1), xdvi(1).

AUTHOR

Paul Vojta, U.C. Berkeley.

X Version 11 11 October 2002

XDVIZILLA(1)