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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CHEQ Chess Piece Font?
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.012716.1318@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 1 Feb 90 01:27:16 GMT
References: <8999@amherst.bitnet> <1990Jan27.195239.11084@NCoast.ORG> <9019.25c366df@amherst.bitnet>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <9019.25c366df@amherst.bitnet> by ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet:
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| In article <1990Jan27.195239.11084@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG
|  (Brandon S. Allbery) writes in reference to the CHEQ Postscript font:
| > It's in the comp.sources.misc archives, available on UUNET and other FTP-able
| > sites.  I keep trying to send it to comp.binaries.mac, but see the current
| 
| To be just a bit more specific, it can be found at the remote FTP site
| 128.252.135.4 (wuarchive.wustl.edu) in
| usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume07/cheq.
| 
| BUT, it is in the zippered (with a .Z extension), not in the regular
| hqx file. So, is it really a binhexed stuffit file? And if so, how does
| one go about un-z'ing something? Are these files with the .Z extension
| binary? And does one do this un-z'ing on the Mac or on a mainframe (only
| Unix? or does it work on a Vax/VMS also?)
+---------------

comp.sources.misc (and comp.sources.unix) archives are usually stored in a
compressed form via the Unix "compress" program.  There are also versions for
VMS, Mis-DOS, and even the Mac.  However, the uncompressed form is a Unix
"shar" file which is designed to be processed by Unix /bin/sh.

The uncompressed and unshar'ed file includes a binhexed Stuffit file with the
screen fonts.  The PostScript code is part plain ASCII and part uuencoded
(another Unix-ism).  Sorry, but comp.sources.misc etc. are intended as Unix
newsgroups; things are distributed in a form useful under Unix (and the
archivers would have my *ss if I violated this; it's happened a few times).

Maybe someone could repack the useful parts of the submission (i.e. leave out
the Ventura Publisher width files, etc.) for the Mac?

++Brandon
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