Ammendment: Change padding to end of DVI files (appendix A) Ammendment number: 02 Submitted by: Don Hosek Date: 22 July 1990 Currently says: Status: RO This curious way to finish off a DVI file makes it feasible for DVI-reading programs to find the postamble first, on most computers, even though TeX wants to write the postamble last. Most operating systems permit random access to individual words or bytes of a file, so the DVI reader can start at the end and skip backwards over the 223's until finding the identification byte. Change to read: This curious way to finish off a DVI file makes it feasible for DVI-reading programs to find the postamble first, on most computers, even though TeX wants to write the postamble last. Most operating systems permit random access to individual words or bytes of a file, so the DVI reader can start at the end and skip backwards over any 0's that may have been added to the end | of the file due to file transfers, then skip over the 223's | until finding the identification byte. [vertical bars indicate the changed portion] Reason for change: As noted above, when moving files between computers, additional 0's may be tacked on to the end of the file due to file transfers. This modification to the DVI file format requires drivers to deal with this appropriately. ----- Ammendment procedure. You may vote "Yes", "No" or "Abstain" on this ammendment. You may change your vote at any time the ammendment is still on the floor. The status of votes on all ammendments will be sent to the voting members of the Driver Standards Group once every 2 days. ================================================================ Also to be changed as part of the ammendment to the DVI format is the "picture" of the postamble. Was: post p[4] num[4] den [4] mag [4] l[4] u[4] s[2] t[2] post_post q[4] i[1] 223's [>=4] Change to: post p[4] num[4] den [4] mag [4] l[4] u[4] s[2] t[2] post_post q[4] i[1] 223's [>=4] 0's [>=0] This is still part of ammendment 2.