[OS X TeX] xdvi

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Sat Dec 17 16:04:43 EST 2005


You need to run it in X (perhaps by using startx from X11 or xterm),  
rather than from Terminal.

I find using MacDviX is a better alternative on OS X.

Cheers
Alan

>> On 18/12/2005, at 8:49 AM, Dan Eriksen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I can't make xdvi work.
>>>
>>> Macintosh:~ de$ xdvi my.dvi
>>> Error:Can=B4t open display:
>>> Macintosh:~ de$ which xdvi
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/xdvi
>>> Macintosh:~ de$ xdvi -v
>>> xdvik version 22.84.4 (Xaw toolkit)
>>> Libraries: kpathsea version 3.5.3, T1lib version 5.0.1
>>> Macintosh:~ de$
>>>
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