Yup. that's the right output. The dvips is used to create ps from dvi file. You need to use -o option for dvips to create a ps file and then you can use gv to view the ps file. Check out man dvips.
-- bpdp On Monday 24 September 2001 1:34 pm, Dale Morris wrote: > After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex > documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print > fine. > > xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the > following file: > > $dvips quantum.tex > > the printed output is not the document I viewed in xdvi, but the > following: > > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > %%Creator: dvips(k) 5,86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software > %%Title: quantum.dvi > %%Pages: 1 > %%PageOrder: Ascend > %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 > %%EndComments > %%DVIPSWebPage: (www.radicaleye.com) > .. > Then after this 'header' it prints out a page full of TeX commands. Is > there some configuration file that I haven't done or ?? > > thanks
