DVI previewer gone haywire

[LMS journals]

Thanks to all, for various helpful messages

I had a look at Dviwindo.ini, and right at the end it has an error message:
LastError=No font files
LastErrorTime=...

As far as I can tell, the font files are all in Winnt, where they belong. I
tried taking an old dviwindo.ini and saving that as the current one (yes, I
have copied the existing one else where as backup), but that doesn't seem to
help.  That does seem to have the right things in the Default and
SourceDefaults lines.

If I uninstall, what will happen to any additional style files that I have
added to what was in the original installation?  Sorry to ask simple
questions -- I'm not technical... I just use the stuff

Sue


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Support for users of Y&Y's TeX system
> [mailto:YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE] On Behalf Of Herbert Gintis
> Sent: 08 November 2004 16:50
> To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
> Subject: Re: DVI previewer gone haywire
>
>
> In this situation, I would just reinstall the TeX system.
> It's not that hard or time consuming. Short of that, you can
> check your dviwindo.ini, which is located in the main windows
> directory (e.g., \windows).
>
> Herb Gintis
>
> At 11:04 AM 11/8/2004, LMS journals wrote:
> >Helpppp!!!
> >
> >I've just done a backup of my whole hard drive, prior to installing
> >some new software.  I first did a disk cleanup and defrag.
> >
> >HOWEVER, before going ahead with the new install, I tried to use DVI
> >windo, and each time I do, it goes into some sort of endless
> loop, with
> >the hourglass showing, and the only way I can stop it is to
> switch the
> >whole computer off at the wall (Ctrl/Alt/Del has no effect, and nor
> >does the on/off button on the hard drive.)
> >
> >I assume that something has got screwed up in the defrag,
> and that I'll
> >need to re-install -- but I'd like to do as little as poss, so as to
> >keep settings, etc.  Using DVIWindo, I can Latex an existing file, I
> >can run Bibtex, but the previewer causes the disaster.
> Trying to open
> >a dvi file from the main DVIWindo menu, or from Explorer,
> has the same
> >effect.
> >
> >Helpful thoughts, please???
> >
> >That'll teach me to try and be conscientious....
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >Sue
>
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