% /usr/spool/ftp/pub/tex/dvi/00news.txt, Wed Mar 13 13:18:40 1991
% Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>

	     Recent Changes to the 2.10 DVI Driver Family

[03-Apr-1991]
I have added Julian Perry's dvijep 2.06 version modifications to add
landscape support to dvijep 2.10.  Considerable evolution took place
between 2.06 and 2.10, making this non-trivial.  The same facility has
been incorporated in the 3.0 development.  Julian's work did not
handle characters which are large enough to require downloading as
bitmaps (e.g. cminch).  I have rectified that problem in both the 2.10
and 3.0 sources.  The changes are in dvijep-landscape.tar; it should
be unbundled AFTER all of the other files.  Since the 2.10 sources are
otherwise frozen, I will not install these new versions in the
distribution directory.  The landscape mode is exercised by the -j
command-line option (there weren't many letters left) for 2.10 dvijep.
3.0 dvijep will be more sensible, since it supports both a -landscape
option as well as a -paper switch, either of which can select
landscape mode.

Unless you also want the \special support, you can ignore the
dvijep.unsupported-mods file, which has the original submissions of
changes.  I do not plan to install the \special support in the 2.10 
drivers.  The 3.0 ones have a much more powerful mechanism.


[13-Mar-1991]
The 3.0 DVI driver development is taking longer than I expected, and no
source release date is in sight.

Although the 2.10 drivers are officially frozen, because of the delay in 3.0
work, I have retrofitted support for path searching during file opens on MS
DOS and UNIX, and installed a few other small corrections.

The new files are in 

	dvimods.tar.z-*		(UNIX source format)
	dvimods.arc-*		(MS DOS source format)

The only difference between these files is the the UNIX ones have linefeed
for line terminators, and the MS DOS ones have carriage-return/linefeed
pairs.  The date stamps are identical.

I will not create new versions of the .exe files in dviexe.arc, nor have I
verified that the code will work on MS DOS (if it does not, the changes
should be very small).  The new code works fine on Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems.

If you wish to incorporate these changes, after unbundling dvi.tar.z or 
dvi*.arc, unbundle the corresponding dvimods files in the same directory.
That will result in the replacement of files that have changed since
1-Jan-1988.