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From: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C.  Haugeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Adobe documents on NeXT & Display PostScript
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Date: 28 Jan 91 19:13:27 GMT
Reply-To: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John Haugeland)
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I would like to obtain the Adobe documents about PostScript on the
NeXT. I know about the E-mail file server at adobe.com, but I'm having
trouble using in (and it seems unnecessarily clumsy anyway), because
the files are so big. So I have two questions:

1)  Why are the files so big, given that the documents are short. For
    instance, according to the "Developer Technical Resources Catalog," 
    the document called "Display PostScript System: NeXT Overview" is
    11 pages; but according to the "Index of Documents" from the Adobe
    file server, the PostScript file is 84k -- why?

2)  Is there any other way I can get these files than via mail from this
    file server? In particular, are they available for anonymous ftp
    from anywhere (a much more plausible & efficient transfer method
    IMHO -- at least for those with access to it). Or, failing that,
    is there anybody I might coax into sending them to me on a floppy
    disk (MS-DOS or Mac format okay)?

Thanks in advance.

- John Haugeland
  haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu