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From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
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Subject: Re: Malvern (meta-)font and MFjob program now available
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Date: 2 May 91 17:17:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk's message of 25 Apr 91 18:44:56 GMT

MFjob has exhibited the extected embarassing teething problems and there
is now a version 2.7.1 on the Oxford archive and a (largish) set of
patches.  V2.7.1 is basically what 2.7 should have been in the first
place :-(.  Pending requests for 2.7 have been replaced with 2.7.1.

Also, there is a "supplement" to the "pre-release" Malvern -- a set of
driver files that can be used to create a subset of the fonts, without
using MFjob.

Finally, there is a mailing-list for MFjob and Malvern -- intended to
carry occasional bug fixs for MFjob, comments and suggestions for
Malvern and announcements of new "releases".  Mail me at the address
<malvern-request@prg.ox.ac.uk> to ask to be put on the list.

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The archive server is e-mail oriented.  It will only send messages of
less than 100K so you have to send two requests to get both parts of
2-part packages.  Send a message with the line

    send CATAGORY FILE

to <archive-server@prg.ox.ac.uk>, where CATAGORY is replaced with either
"tex" for Malvern or "prog" for MFjob, and FILE is one of:

    mfjob-271-1.shar	)   MFjob 2.7.1 (C program for UNIX -- only tested
    mfjob-271-2.shar	)   on Suns so far though)

    mfjob-patch01.shar	    patches from 2.7 -> 2.7.1

    malvern-0.3-1.shar	)   Malvern (METAFONT code and a few extra files)
    malvern-0.3-2.shar	)

    malvern-sup1.shar	    METAFONT driver files for creating Malvern
			    fonts without MFjob

The archive-server also understands the messages "help" and "index
CATAGORY".

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