> I get an error message saying: > "the file you want open contains non-valid characters".
Hmmm. I can't reproduce this. What locale are you using (LANG, LC_CTYPE)? > I know Latex only a little bit. > But this doesn't like an input-file for Latex. DVI is the *output* format of TeX. It's purpose in the TeX world is similar to the ditroff intermediate format you get with "groff -Z" in the troff world.