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From: brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Postscript Fonts for the Macintosh
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Date: 16 Nov 90 18:39:43 GMT
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In article <0093FC26.50218FC0@pip.cc.brandeis.edu> st902824@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Mad Adler) writes:
>Does anyone know of any places where cheap postscript fonts for the Mac
>are available?
>
>         -MAD
	Just recently, the following was posted:

>Article 1313 of comp.fonts:
>Newsgroups: comp.fonts
>Subject: An archive for Mac fonts...
>Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan
>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 07:10:22 GMT

>[...]   I just thought I'd let
>you know of an archive that I help to maintain over at the
>University of Michigan that has a serious amount of fonts for
>the Macintosh family of computers (including ones not found on
>any other Internet/Bitnet sites).  

>To access the archive, FTP anonymously to UM-MTS.CC.UMICH.EDU
>(35.1.1.43) or it's clone UB-MTS.CC.UMICH.EDU (35.1.1.47), and
>after typing "CD PC2:", you can "GET !INDEX" which will list
>the 1000's of files (including a few megs of fonts) on-line.

>Mike@ccs.itd.umich.edu.

	I have been able to get the index, but I have not yet been able to
ftp the actual fonts themselves. Their ftp server seems to be somewhat
unusual... I've mailed Mike for some help but no response yet.

	But in general, there does seems to be a lot available via ftp.

Dave 

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