On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu > under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't
According to xdvi's man page, it should be able to open this file
directly:
If a file name is given (as opposed to a shell command),
if that file name ends in ``.Z'', ``.gz'', or ``.bz2'' and
if the first two bytes of the file indicate that it was
compressed with compress(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1) respec
tively, then the file is first uncompressed with uncom
press -c, gunzip -c, or bunzip2 -c, respectively. This is
preferred over using a backtick to call the command di
rectly, since you do not have to specify -allowshell and
since it allows for path searching.
However, this doesn't seem to work on my potato system. So it would
seem that you need to copy the file elsewhere and uncompress it. That
is a bit annoying, but you should just write a quick script to do it for
you. It can't be that awful an idea; that's what 'man' does, after all.
Don't forget to read /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex, too,
for some important latex examples.
noah
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