Hi,

This is xdvi, a crusty old DVI viewer for X. It has the advantage of no
other port dependencies, and compiles without patching. I have tested it
on i386, amd64, and sparc64.

It is configured it to look for fonts in the same location that
fonts/tex-fonts installs them.

Yea this port has problems: it intermittently abort()'s for me on exit,
has support for Display Postscript, NeWS, workarounds for signal
problems on OSF/1, extreme global state, unconditionally tries to look
for ghostscript support, support for non standard C, VMS support,
K&R function declarations, support for <varargs.h>, etc etc.

BUT it is still better than the xdvi(k) shipped with texlive, which has
all these problems plus more. They actually share a common lineage, it
looks like they started diverging wildly about 20 years ago.

I have been studying this program and am familiar with its internals.
If there is interest I can go in and start whacking features. It
is usable (barely) as-is though.

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