dvi mode - display other .dvi-file within .dvi-file

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Assume you have fileA.tex and compiling it via latex yields fileA.dvi.
What do you need to do if

you don't want to have fileA.dvi converted to some other format (!!!)
you wish to create a file fileB.tex which when compiling with latex yields fileB.dvi where within a rectangular square the content of fileA.dvi is displyed?

What do directives look like for importing one .dvi-file into another/for displaying one .dvi-file within another?

David Carlisle · Answer

The grfpaste package (which is in texlive) allows you to use includegraphics{file.dvi} to include a referenced dvi file as you describe.
It requires the grfpaste program (which I have not run for some decades, but should still work) it is no longer distributed with texlive but the sources are on ctan at https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipaste

dvi mode - display other .dvi-file within .dvi-file

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