There are many previewers for dvi files under MS-Windows. The
most popular is probably Dviwin. However it lacks some important
features such as the ability to recursively search directories
for font files, the ability to use .vf files or display
PostScript fonts, and the ability to display PostScript images.
Unfortunately, the Dviwin sources were never put into the public
domain; on the other side of the fence, Xdvi under Unix has these features, is
widely used and its sources are available. Xdvi(k) uses the
kpathsea library to search directories, already used in the
Web2c-win32 port of TeX, so there was some interest in porting
Xdvi(k) to Win32. As it turned out, this turned into far more
than just a port, as X Windows is far from Win32. All the user
interface and the graphical part has been rewritten.
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