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From: mackay@adobe.com (Debbie MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AFM files: of any use?
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Date: 20 Nov 89 21:28:13 GMT
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In article <17331@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>Thanks a lot, Ross.  I appreciate the info, and so do a lot of other people.
>now, being a novice user of the net, and having recently (very) gotten
>onto the net, just how do you go about getting into the server.  The note
>is to send message help to the file server.  Is this accomplished by:
>
>mail ps-file-server@adobe.com
>
>then the message and control 'D' or what?  Is there a direct phone
>number that non-netters can use to access the server?  Does the server
>support X-modem protocol?  Am looking forward to a reply to these questions.
>It would be best for me, if there were a dial-in line directly that I could
>access outside of the net,so I could get the stuff directly from my AT....
>

The Adobe File Server is a automatic mail-response program.
That means that you mail it a request, and it mails back
the response. Direct dial-in is not supported.

To get in touch with the server, send a message (in whatever
way you normally send mail) to "ps-file-server@adobe.COM"
containing the word "help" in either the Subject: field 
OR the message body. It will reply with a message on how
to use the available services.

There are many documents available from the server as 
PostScript files, plus program sources, Adobe Font Metrics
files, PostScript Printer Description files, and other 
things.

You might send a second message containing the word 
"index" to save some time once you get the help message.

If you have any problems contacting the server, or you have
any suggestions, please send a message to the moderator
(ps-file-person@adobe.COM).

Deborah MacKay
Adobe Systems Incorporated