Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!qmw.ac.uk!J.S.Stephenson From: J.S.Stephenson@qmw.ac.uk Newsgroups: bionet.software Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 02:07:00 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Lines: 37 > I want to get hold of the latest version of the PostScript-like interpreter > for the PC call GHOSTSCRIPT. This is distributed by the > > FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION INC. > > Can anyone tell me the address/fax/phone of these people? > > Charles > > L.C. Willoughby > Chemistry Department > University College London The address is: The Free Software Foundation Inc. 675 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Telephone: 0101 617 876 3296, Electronic mail: GNU@Edu.MIT.AI.PREP But you shouldn't need to contact the American HQ: there are local UK distribution centres for the GNU software. The MIT people certainly won't thank you for a request for one copy of some software for your personal PC. It is a natural consequence of their software being free that they don't have the resources to provide that sort of service. To spread the load, there are several UK distribution centres, each of which takes responsibility for one part of the full range of GNU software. To find out where to get any particular item, send an email message to Info-Server@UK.AC.UKC, with the following 3 lines of text: request: catalogue topic: index request: end This will send you a list of who supplies what. As it happens, Ghostscript is available from Imperial College. Try sending some email to Info-Server@UK.AC.IC.DoC, with a text of HELP, to get started.