[408] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Postscript Files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Wed Jun 3 12:16:17 1992
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 11:09:51 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
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3 Messages, 118 Lines
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From: Terry Brainerd Chadwick <CWTC@PSUORVM>
Subject: RE: Internet Guides in ASCII
I support Jerry Caswell's call for Internet Guides to be available in
ASCII as well as postscript and other binary formats.
Regardless of what is becoming a network standard, not all of us have
access to a postscript printer, to a macintosh, etc. I don't know anyone
who uses postscript. None of the MACS in our office are hooked to a modem.
Files with pre-existing pages, even in Word Perfect which I use, never
match my style of printing.
I've been waiting for months for Zen and the Art of the Internet to be
available in ASCII. I would love to read it and see if I can use it to
teach the Internet. But, without an ASCII version, I can't do it. (I did
try to download the postscript version once, and couldn't even do that,
even with all of the correct (I think) binary codes.)
So please, if at all possible, please make all those wonderful guides
available in ASCII, as well as other formats. Those of us with outdated
systems, who lack the "right" printers, and/or who can't handle those
immense binary files will thank you.
Thanks in advance.
Terry Brainerd Chadwick
International Trade Institute
Portland State University
121 SW Salmon, ste 230
Portland, OR 97204
503-725-5352; fax 503-228-6350
cwtc@psuorvm.bitnet or cwtc@psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu
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From: AGRTQB@IRMFAO01
Subject: Re: PostScriptfiles
In reply to the message of Iain Noble about PostScript files (especially
Zen and ....)
The postscript file are ASCII files and therefore should be downloadable
as normal e-mail files (ASCII, NETDATA, ....) but as the files are
travelling through different computers, some machines keep trying to make
the files readable for them before to forward (you know ASCII, EBCDIC, ...).
For example in the mail messages I receive the square brackets, the caret,
the stile get sent differently depending from where they come (square brackets
come as ASCII(213/229 or 111/130 or something like that; the stile comes
from time to time as square bracket left, ...).
To be sure you get the file uncorrupted ask for it as BINARY which forces
transfer without touching the content. We had to do that after a first
attempt as ASCII e-mail.
The PostScript file should work on any (?) PostScript printer, we did print
it with :
print ZEN.PS
on an IBM compatible with a HP Laserjet Serie II (4MB memory) and a Pacific
Page PostScript emulation package.
Apart from Zen (Brendan P. Kehoe), Guide (Dana Doonan), Hitchhiker's Guide
(E. Kroll) and HYTELNET I do have some other documents which could interest
the subscribers of this list, see below. If there is some interest I could
send the one which are not on the net to ??? to store in an open
(ftp accessible) directory.
Alain Delmotte Agrometeorology / FAO or Avenue du Marathon, 6
Via delle Terme di Caracalla B1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
I00100 Rome ITALY BELGIUM
tel.: Italy-6-5797 5504 Belgium-10-45 11 92
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INTERGUI
Inter-Network Mail Guide by J.J. Chew (92/05/19)
How to format the address from one network to another
SMILIES
A dictionnary of all those glyphs used in e-mail messages like the well
known :-)
INTERNET.BBS
List of Bulletin Board Systems reachable from Internet
JARGON.ZIP
Some 280 pages on the language used by computer people
MAILBOOK.ZIP
R. A. Schafer & S.L. Goodman tutorial on the use of the MAIL command
for IBM VM/CMS; different versions (ASCII? PostScript, GeoWrite)
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And I recommend using the Readmail program to read your mail off-line; it
can be downloaded from SIMTEL20 or from TRICKLE for the Bitnet users.
RMAIL401.ZIP
J. Schipper READMAIL program, freeware for PC/DOS
A program to read e-mail messages, this program can be configured to
acept different types of headers; it also allows to copy, mark, delete,
print messages, to sort the messages according to subject/sender
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Subject: Re: Postscript Files
From: "Dave Bates, Whitney Library, GE CRD (518-387-7538)"
<bates@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>
Apple LaserWriters normally have a built in PostScript interpreter
Our LaserWriters are accessible from UNIX machines. In that case,
you just print the file by typing something like
lpr junk.ps
As long as junk.ps follows postscript conventions, the printer will
interpret the file.
dave bates
GE Whitney Library
