disdvi(1)

disdvi1

`disassemble' a (p)tex or xetex dvi file

Usage

disdvi [-p] [-u] [-Eenc] [dvi_file [.dvi]]

disdvi -x [xdv_file [.xdv]]

disdvi -h

Overview

disdvi interprets the contents of dvi_file or xdv_file printing the DVI commands and text in a human-readable ASCII/multibyte format on the standard output.

Options:

-p

Handle ASCII pTeX dvi file.

-u

Handle upTeX dvi file.

-Eenc

Set output multibyte encoding. The enc argument 'e', 's', 'j', and 'u' denotes EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and UTF-8, respectively.

-x

Handle XeTeX xdv file.

-h

Show a help massage and exit successfully.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 3.1–4.0
  3. 7–9
  4. 10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13–Arch

-Eenc since Debian 13 (Trixie); -h since Debian 13 (Trixie); -p since Debian 13 (Trixie); -u since Debian 13 (Trixie); -x since Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Marcel J.E. Mol, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
[email protected], MESA Consulting

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.