DVICONCAT(1)

πŸ“¦ version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ DVICONCAT(1) ✨ General Commands Manual πŸ’–

okay bestie, let's talk about dviconcat, the tool that's literally all about smooshing DVI files together 🫢


πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

dviconcat - concatenate DVI files πŸ¦‹

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dviconcat [ -m magnification ] [ -o outfile ] list of files

πŸ’… DESCRIPTION πŸ’…

okay so dviconcat takes all the files you name and concatenates them into one. no names given? it reads from standard input instead πŸ™ˆ the result goes to standard output, or to the file you pick with -o. ngl it's giving main character energy because the new DVI file works with any of the TeX conversion programs, and even with dviconcat itself πŸ”₯

the magnification of the output file matches the first input file, unless you use the -m option to change it. and if dviconcat ends up changing the magnification of any input file, it'll print a warning to let you know 🚨 no sneaky changes here, periodt ✨

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Chris Torek, University of Maryland 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dviselect(1), latex(1), tex(1) πŸ’œ MC-TeX User's Guide πŸ“–

πŸ™ˆ BUGS πŸ™ˆ

the program should be called dvicat, but that name was already taken πŸ’€ by the driver for the C/A/T typesetter. the vibes were a little bit cursed, not gonna lie 😭

and that's the tea, bestie πŸ“ this page came from DVICONCAT(1), so you're officially a manpage expert now. slay πŸ’–πŸ¦‹

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