[tex-live] Please enable ipc in tex
Jonathan Fine
J.Fine at open.ac.uk
Fri Jul 2 18:28:29 CEST 2004
Please, if not already done, would you build TeX with
configure --enable-ipc
Here is why:
Ordinarily, TeX buffers its output dvi file.
Tom Rokicki made changes here on the NeXT platform.
This allowed dvi files to be previewed while TeX was still running.
--enable-ipc adds these changes to the system dependent part of TeX.
This adds a command line flag --ipc, whic turns off buffering.
The texd project, and also dvipng and PyX, use this when available.
(All 3 projects are on sourceforge.)
For several years tex on Debian has included this feature.
For info on texd visit http://www.pytex.org/texd/index.html
Jonathan
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