[Mac OS X TeX] Dvi and postscript previewers

[Benji Fisher]

     I think I can answer this one.  The ~ represents your home directory, so
~/bin means that you should create a directory (folder) named bin inside your
home directory.  You can do this from the Finder or as follows from Terminal:

% cd ~
% mkdir bin

(The first line, changing to your home directory, is probably redundant.)

HTH					--Benji Fisher

Adrian Heathcote wrote:
> 
> Tom ---where is ~/bin? I can see no such folder in my home directory. Is
> it necessary to create it, or is it deeper in one of the other folders?
> 
> Adrian Heathcote
> 
> On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 07:33 PM, Tom Kiffe wrote:
> 
> > The dvi and postscript previewers, MacDvi and MacGhostView, are now
> > available as programs which fully integrate with teTeX and ghostscript.
> > In fact, they require that teTeX and ghostscript 6.01 or later be
> > installed. Macdvi will use the teTeX texmf tree to load tfm, vf, and pk
> > files and
> > will call mktexpk for the automatic generation of pk fonts. MacGhostView
> > will call gs to do any necessary file conversions. Included with these
> > two programs is a new version of CMacTeX. This version calls the tex,
> > pdftex, dvips, gs, etc, binaries distributed with teTeX to do file
> > conversions. It is basically a shell program that gives the user a
> > graphical interface to TeX which is quite different than TeXShop.
> > The whole package is only 1.5 MB and can be downloaded from
> > http://www.kiffe.com/tex/programs/misc-tex.sit.bin. Installation
> > instructions are included. The programs have been tested only under
> > OS 10.1.2.
> >
> > These antiquated Carbon programs require a HFS+ file system and will be
> > of no interest to NeXT and unix purists. Neither MacDvi nor
> > MacGhostView require the X Window System. Besides displaying postscript
> > files, MacGhostView can perform such obsolete tasks as adding a PICT
> > preview to an eps file and saving a postscript page as a PICT image.
> > MacDvi can use the Postscript versions of the CM and AMS fonts for
> > previewing on OS X just as similar programs used these fonts on
> > OS 8 and 9 with Adobe Type Manager.
> >
> > Happy New Year,
> >
> > Tom
> >
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