Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!vax5!rad From: rad@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Public domain PS conversion programs Keywords: PDTEX, ps2lasrjet, Internet, SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <17898@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 89 15:39:46 GMT References: <658@cirrusl.UUCP> <6232@saturn.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos, Jr.) Distribution: usa Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca, NY 14853 Lines: 46 In article <6232@saturn.ucsc.edu> mongo@helios.ucsc.edu (Mongo Package) writes: >In article <658@cirrusl.UUCP> corwin@cirrusl.UUCP (Paul Frommeyer) writes: >> >>The archive system SIMTEL-20 on the DDN (Internet, ARPAnet, what-have-you-net) >>has about every public domain PostScript conversion program I know of, > > >Pardon the general posting of this note, but the original article left >much to be discovered with no apparent way to discover it. > Info re: SIMTEL-20 The original name for the machine was simtel-20.arpa, I believe. It has since been renamed to simtel20.army.mil, in concurrence w/ the erradication of the .arpa addresses. If I'm not mistaken, the machine is an old DEC running TOPS-20, though they might ave replaced it w/ a UN*X machine. Another, similarly well endowed machine is sumex-aim.stanford.edu. I'm very sure that sumex-aim is now UN*X, though it was also TOPS-20. The basic syntax of the directories, assuming it's still TOPS-20, would be cd PD1: /* A diectory I happen to remember */ You might want to try PDn: /* n= [1-4] or so */ to get to the postscript stuff. Once you cd to a directory, you can get a list of the files w/ ls; before you do so, I don't think that you can. (I just connected from another machine; simtel20.army.mil is a synonym for wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. There are some files in pd2: including filters, and probably the ps kernal the orriginal poster mentioned. There's no indication of a directory.) One last note: as simtel20 runs TOPS-20, make sure you use TENEX mode for all transfers! (TOPS-20 uses 36 bit words, image and bin modes transmit all 36 bits, messing up your files.) (NB: ascii mode should work for text-only files.) That's all I can think of. I'd be happy to respond if anyone has any more questions. I'm sure there is a file on simtel20 that lists all of the directories that are anon ftp-able, but I've not found it; I always have to use trial & ERROR. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. Borrowing an account again. +1 607 272 4519 B-7 Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853