ucca021@ucl.ac.uk (04/09/91)
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 20 Gordon Street LONDON WC1H OAJ UK
J.S.Stephenson@qmw.ac.uk (04/11/91)
> 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.
harper@csc.fi (04/12/91)
In article <11010.9104081751@ucl.ac.uk>, ucca021@ucl.ac.uk writes: > 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? Running Archie with maxhits set to 4 gives the following four ftp sites for ghostscript. I also ran a check for UK sites and at the momment there are no UK sites in the ARCHIE database. The first two hits are in Australia, and the third is in Japan So I would go for the fourth one in the US. All in all there are about 80-100 ftp sites for ghostscript... but I don't want to list them here. Basically this was just a demo of the utility of Archie in finding programmes. archie> set maxhits 4 archie> prog ghostscript # matches / % database sear 4 / 1% / 0% Host munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Last updated 19:02 8 Apr 1991 Location: /gnu FILE rw-r--r-- 606899 Jan 19 17:29 ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z Host metro.ucc.su.oz.au (129.78.64.2) Last updated 18:11 8 Apr 1991 Location: /archive/gnu/ghostscript FILE rw-r--r-- 606899 Mar 13 07:08 ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z Host miki.cs.titech.ac.jp (131.112.16.39) Last updated 05:03 7 Apr 1991 Location: /GNU FILE r--r--r-- 606899 Jan 17 17:03 ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z Host mcsun.eu.net (192.16.202.1) Last updated 05:09 6 Apr 1991 Location: /gnu FILE rw-r--r-- 606899 Feb 2 11:54 ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z RGDS -=ROB=-