Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!euler.claremont.edu!dhosek From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Wasy fonts from DHDURZ1 Message-ID: <1991Feb18.090717.1@euler.claremont.edu> Date: 18 Feb 91 17:07:17 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 41 In article , jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) writes: > I tried fetching the wasy fonts from LISTSERV@DHDURZ1. They come as a Zoo- and > UU-encoded archive. This uudecoded without problems, but wouldn't unzoo (zoo l > marked one of the files, wasy6.mf, as possibly corrupted; when I extracted the > files they all came out with CRC errors, and zoo hung on trying to extract > wasy6.mf. The files with CRC errors came out scrambled but almost legible-- > wrong characters, transposed characters, bits missing etc. I suspect I am the > victim of some mailer translation somwehere.) > Would some kind soul who has successfully fetched these fonts send me a copy? > I promise to send them off them to the Aston archive! Don't send them straight > away--write and let me know they're coming, so I can make sure that I only get > one copy. These files are available from the Aston archive in the UK (I forget where, but I remember seeing them). In general, you want to get files from as close to home as possible. if you're on JANET and you want some TeX-related item, check Aston first. If you're on Bitnet in Europe, check listserv@dhdurz1, internet in Europe, check praxis.cs.ruu.nl, internet in the US, ymir.claremont.edu Bitnet in the US, fileserv@shsu. *Then* start looking elsewhere. Both ymir and Aston religiously track down new TeX items and put them in their archives (and I suspect the Dutch site does as well) so just because they aren't listed as a site for obtaining a file doesn't mean that it's not there (I have nearly everything in the TeX resource list, for example). -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.