[7340] in SIPB bug reports
problem with netbsd version of dvi2tty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Mon Jul 26 09:57:20 1999
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:57:05 EDT
From: Alex <xela@MIT.EDU>
Hi---
I was attempting by various meant to convert the emacs20 refcard
(/mit/emacs/share/emacs/20.3.10/etc/refcard.tex) to html. The
obvious tools (tth, texi2html) produced lousy output and spewed
lots of error messages, so I ended up running tex on the file,
then trying to run dvi2tty on it. Under NetBSD this segfaulted.
sporadic:~/Public% dvi2tty refcard.dvi
Segmentation fault
Under solaris it worked fine. I tried it under solaris on both
a refcard.dvi generated by tex under solaris and on one generated
by tex under netbsd (newtex locker version in both cases) and
it producec identical results, so I'm pretty sure it's a dvi2tty
issue, not a tex issue.
The netbsd machine was sporadic, the solaris no-knife:
sporadic:~% tail /etc/athena/version
installed on Thu Jan 28 19:56:40 GMT 1999
Athena Workstation (inbsd) Version 8.2.2 Wed Sep 16 19:59:34 EDT 1998
Athena Workstation (inbsd) Version Update Thu Jan 28 16:05:26 EST 1999
Athena Workstation (inbsd) Version 8.2.3 Thu Jan 28 16:05:51 EST 1999
Athena Server (inbsd) Version Update Thu Jan 28 16:26:54 EST 1999
Athena Server (inbsd) Version 8.2.3 Thu Jan 28 16:28:47 EST 1999
no-knife:~% tail /etc/athena/version
installed on Sat Aug 1 01:19:16 EDT 1998
Athena Workstation (sun4) Version 8.2.8 Thu Jul 16 17:01:59 EDT 1998
Athena Server (sun4) Version Update Sat Aug 1 03:55:49 EDT 1998
Athena Server (sun4) Version 8.2.8 Sat Aug 1 03:57:11 EDT 1998
Athena Server (sun4) Version 8.2.17 Tue Mar 2 17:59:36 EDT 1999
---Alex
Carl Alexander
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