markf@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark Foster) (01/31/90)
From article <9019.25c366df@amherst.bitnet>, by ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet: > In article <1990Jan27.195239.11084@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG > (Brandon S. Allbery) writes in reference to the CHEQ Postscript font: > > 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?) The files with a .Z extension are unix 'compress'ed. You simply 'uncompress' them. -- ---Don't take life so seriously.----------///---You won't make it out alive.--- Mark Foster, Computing Service | C= /// | markf @ syma.sussex.ac.uk University of Sussex, Falmer | \\\/// | mef @ cluster.sussex.ac.uk England. BN1 9QH +44 273 607418 | \X// | ccfa3 @ cluster.sussex.ac.uk
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (02/01/90)
As quoted from <9019.25c366df@amherst.bitnet> by ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet: +--------------- | 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 -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@cwjcc.cwru.edu *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)*