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From: andyh%radian@natinst.com (Andy Hart)
Subject: Looking for a Unix SysAdmin in Mexico City
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:27:35 GMT
Organization: Radian Corporation, Austin, Texas
Followup-To: sender

Radian Corp., Austin, Texas has a sister company in Mexico City that is looking for a 
systems administrator for a Sun SPARCstation.  The job will include typical system admin work,
network administration (NFS/PC-NFS, PPP,SLIP, and TCP/IP), C programming, and relational database 
administration.  Other responsibilities will include many DOS PCs and a Telebit NetBlazer link to a
remote Novell Netware network.  We are looking for someone who either lives in Mexico City or 
wants to live in Mexico City.  The position requires a quick response, the 
position has an immediate availability.

reply to
	andyh%radian@natinst.com, or
	radian!andyh@natinst.com, or
	andyh@radian.uucp

	fax# (512) 454-0109
From: an4788@anon.penet.fi
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix.roomshare
Subject: Roommate at Usenix/San Diego -- correction
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:11:39 GMT
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: comp.org.usenix.roomshare

(Here's a repost -- wrong date, sorry)

I took a room from Sunday 1/24 until Friday 1/29 at the conference hotel
that I'd be willing to share so as to split costs with a non-smoker and
reasonably quiet person.  I am a gay european quiet non-smoker.
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From: an4788@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Roommate at Usenix/San Diego
Organization: Anonymous contact service
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:22:01 GMT

I took a room from 1/23 until 1/29 at the conference hotel that I'd be
willing to share so as to split costs with a non-smoker and reasonably
quiet person.
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From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Should I bring my wellies to Usenix ?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:34:02 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

The rain here has been between an English summer rain and a bit heavier,
with occasional really brisk winds.  Not bad, and not too cold.  It
certainly isn't a hurricane.

However, the hotel is located in Mission Valley, which is a dry riverbed.
It is part of a "100-year flood plain", which has been quite dry for
some years.  When it rains hard, some of the roads crossing the valley
get flooded.  Every year some idiot tries to surf the resulting river
and dies.  The freeways continue to flow just fine.

If the rain stops even for a day, the valley drains quite quickly and is
pleasant once again, as long as you like mud.

When it's raining as it is now, the conference center is ok, and
probably the hotel is too.  If it were to do a week of really heavy rain
(heavy for us), the underground parking garage at the convention center
would be a mess but the convention center itself would be ok.

Because San Diego's storms are blown in from the Pacific (and there's
little radar at sea), it's quite hard to predict their exact arrival and
strength.  Another problem is that our chief weatherman retired about a
year ago and his replacement is more familiar with the Boston area, so
predictions are a little less reliable than in the past, and tend to err
on the cautious side - he often predicts downpours when all we get are
moderate rains.

If it's raining or rain is predicted when you leave for the conference,
I'd suggest some sensible rain gear (umbrella, raincoat, maybe some wellies)
but you don't have to pack a raft.  On the other hand, we may have a
Santa Ana condition by then, and it will bright and sunny and 70F.

Welcome to San Diego.
	- Brian
From: ellie@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: SAGE Election Results
Keywords: SAGE, USENIX, Elections
Date: 9 Jan 93 23:56:38 GMT
Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley

The results of the elections for the Board of Directors of SAGE, 
(the USENIX Association's Special Technical Group-- the System 
Administrator's Guild) for the 1993 & 1994 term are as follows:

Directors: 
Elected for 1993 & 1994, two year term

Steve Simmons	118
Pat Parseghian	115
Peg Schafer	111

Directors:
Elected for 1993, one year term

Pat Wilson	107
Carol Kubicki	103
Paul Moriarty	 99

Appointed Director: Elizabeth Zwicky - Past President

------------------------------
Not Elected:

For Director:

Paul Evans	 88
Steve Romig	 73
Pete Cottrell	 70
Arch Mott	 70
Lee Damon	 61
Hal Pomeranz	 50

Total number of ballots cast: 196

The new board took office January 1, 1993.  The board consists
of 7 members:  the past president and 6 elected directors (above).  
In the first year, 3 members will be elected for 2-year terms (top 
3 vote getters above), and 3 members elected for 1-year terms (next 
3 vote getters above).  Subsequent elections will turn over only 3 
members of the board each year.  

An Open Meeting with the SAGE Board of Directors will be held
held at the USENIX Winter '93 Technical Conference in San Diego, CA 
on Wednesday, January 27, 1993, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.
From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Should I bring my wellies to Usenix ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:00:35 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: forney.berkeley.edu

In article <1iruc0INN1mj@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> neil@pio.gid.co.uk writes:
>The UK newspapers are reporting flooding etc in Tijuana, and other
>posters have
>mentioned lots of rain presently in San Diego. How wet is it ? average
>British winter's day rain, average British summer's day rain :-) or what ?

San Diego, on average, gets less than 9 inches (29 cm) of rain per year.
The amount of rain they've been getting lately would seem like nothing
for people from wetter climates (e.g. Britain).  The flooding is because
desert areas have poor drainage, so that when you do have a big storm,
the storm drains back up and the hills turn into mud that slides downhill.
When people start paving everywhere so the ground can no longer absorb
the runoff, flooding gets particularly bad when you do have a big storm.

Even during most of the rains, what a southern Californian would call
a heavy rain, most people from wetter parts of the world would call a
light rain.  It really hasn't been all that much rain by the standards
of most places.

>Do the weather reports indicate that things are likely to clear up by
>the time the conference starts ?

My experience with weather reports indicates that any prediction for
more than five days in advance is no better than a coin flip.  So who
knows?



--
Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
From: hlf@nic.cerf.net (Howard Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Usenix in San Diago ???
Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:21:33 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net


I know that the next USENIX symposium is happening in San Diago real
soon  now, but can anyone tell me where and when. I have not been to
a USENIX conference before. Did I need to book months and months ago??
	ta
		hlf


Xref: sparky comp.org.usenix:1180 comp.org.sug:598 comp.org.uniforum:114 comp.unix.large:408 comp.unix.admin:6886 comp.os.misc:991 comp.misc:4758
From: neil@pio.gid.co.uk (Neil Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Should I bring my wellies to Usenix ?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:57:20 GMT
Organization: GID Ltd, Upper Basildon, READING, Berks UK
Distribution: world
Reply-To: neil@pio.gid.co.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.164.64.73

The UK newspapers are reporting flooding etc in Tijuana, and other posters have
mentioned lots of rain presently in San Diego. How wet is it ? average
British winter's day rain, average British summer's day rain :-) or what ?

Do the weather reports indicate that things are likely to clear up by
the time the conference starts ?

Neil


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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From:  yurko@dilo.lviv.ua (Yuri Z. Kostiv)
Subject: WANTED formats: TrueType, PostScript Type1, pfm-file for Windows.
Reply-To: yurko@dilo.lviv.ua
Organization: Newspaper Dilo
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:04:12 +0300 


WANTED!!!!!!!!
  a)TrueType, PostScript Type1 - files format;
  b)Format of "pfm"-file for Windows.
Thanks forward.

    Contact:   addr:   "Dilo" newspaper / Computer Service
                        2, Volodymyra Velykogo Str
                        Lviv 290601
                        UKRAINE
               phone:   (0322) 343-004
               fax:     (0322) 354-340
               e-mail:  yurko%dilo.lviv.ua@relay.ussr.eu.net

Glad to experience sharing and talking around.

                                                  Sincerely,
                                                  Yurko Kostiv,

Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager, WFNBoss, Corel Draw
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:35:17 GMT

bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:


> Using Subrs for common subshapes is a great idea, with one major problem:
> hinting.  The rmoveto's, rlineto's and rcurveto's are all relative, and so
> can be easily used to generate the same shape in different positions.
> But hints are all absolute (with respect to the left side bearing point).
> So the shared code better not contain any hints.
...> But please
> don't destroy a good commercial quality font that uses hint replacement, 
> for example, by applying this method for extracting common subshapes...
> Ah, I just noticed you said `PD fonts' in your posting (:-).
I would expect commercial fonts not to need any "optimization" of this 
kind anyway (since I expect "commercial" should also mean "professional" 
and this should imply knowledge of how to handle formats etc - I know 
this implication is not always true).
Anyway: what whould be the problem of extracting identical sequences 
of commands into Subrs? Their meaning relative to the Charstring they 
get called from is not changed by this even if by chance it should be 
a different one in some cases. I think the problem you seem to describe 
does not exist.
Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: jmccorm@a.cs.okstate.edu (MCCORMICK JOSHUA C)
Subject: Re: reencoding TrueType fonts
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 01:06:23 GMT

I'm currently making a computer graphics demo, and I am in
need of some fonts that I can read in an easy format. I prefer
mutli-colored fonts, but I'll settle with monochrome if I have to.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[If anything about this message is a little weird, don't be
too hard on me. This is my first post in the net.]
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: brekshyn@shearson.com (Bohdan Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Macintosh, Ukrainian font(s)
Reply-To: brekshyn@shearson.com
Organization: Ordinatio
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:55:17 GMT

Greetings,

   As I am new to this forum I may have missed a posting.  I'm looking for a
Ukrainian font for the Macintosh.  Cyrillic would be a close fit but its
been my experience that when people say Cyrillic, they really mean Russian.
Both languages employ the Cyrillic character set but there are enough
differences in the languages to necessitate a separate font.  I'd prefer
a "share/free/ware" font rather than paying hundreds of dollars and get
50 other fonts I have no other use for.  Thanks in advance for your help!



					Regards,

					Bohdan


















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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: Graphics Print Screen to Hp DeskJet
Organization: Saint Mary's University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:15:26 GMT


How can I get graphics to print on a HP deskjet using print screen.
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: dahlberg@netcom.com (Carl R. Dahlberg)
Subject: Re: Anyone Make A Eurostile Font?
Followup-To: carl@granite.com
Keywords: eurostyle, eurostile, folio, f3
Organization: Netcom Online Geek Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:15:00 GMT

Boy, and if anybody out there knows where I can get a Folio3B version
of the Eurostile 2 Bold Extended font, please let me know.  The original
is made by some German company that doesn't even license the Folio software.

Even something remarkably similar would be helpful.

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carl@granite.com
From: marcos@kaleida.com (Paul Marcos)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: SuperATM press release from Compuserve
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:20:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc.

In article <freek.725827713@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>, freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek
Wiedijk) wrote:
> 
> kens@civil.civeng.unsw.OZ.AU (Ken Simpson) writes:
> >                                                   All substituted
> >fonts, serif or sans serif, are derived from two new multiple master
> >designs developed especially for this product.
> 
> Is this referring to Minion and Myriad, or are these two _new_ multiple
> master fonts?  If so, what's their name?
> 

These are two new fonts, called Adobe Serif and Adobe Sans.  They're 
generic looking fonts that are used for substitution.  

Paul
.........................................................................
Paul Marcos                                                (415) 966-0873
Kaleida Labs, Inc.                                     marcos@kaleida.com
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From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Real Type1 fonts in CD 3.0???
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:45:54 GMT
Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
NNTP-Posting-Host: coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de

Hi folks,

I am wondering if anyone knows, whether the type1 fonts shipped with the
CD version of CorelDraw 3.0 are real type1 fonts in that the hints and all
metric information are there?
Or did they simply convert their wfn-fonts from CorelDraw 2.0 to type1 (
(using maybe even wfn-boss)? The disk version e.g. comes with only wfn-fonts
and truetypes.
Also I have heard that Corel has bought their fonts from Adobe and that when
buying CorelDraw 3.0 you get 250 REAL Adobe fonts with it. Now that seems like
a bargain too good to be true.
Comments anyone?


     Ulrich Mayring
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: TrueType vs. PostScript
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:43:50 GMT

wbogue@cwis.unomaha.edu (Willie Bogue) writes:

> I use a Mac SE w/ 4 megs RAM and a 40 meg hard disk. I print on an HP
> DeskWriter. I'm running System 7.1 and ATM2.03.

> As you probably know, a few fonts come in both Type 1 and TT formats.
> Is one preferable to the other?

Since you only have a 40 MB disk, the main argument against truetype is 
certainly very important for you: it wastes more than twice as much of 
file size than equivalent type 1 fonts. (I don't the Mac, though, it 
might be that thanks to some automatic online compression scheme this 
does not imply waste of the same amount of disk space.)
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:3851 sci.lang.japan:5035 fj.kanji:475
From: karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,sci.lang.japan,fj.kanji
Subject: Scalable (vector) kanji fonts needed.
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:03:05 GMT
Organization: MITS, Helsinki, Finland


I'm interested about scalable fonts for kanji (JIS levels 1 & 2 preferably).
That is, they should be in 'vector' format, not bitmapped. They would be
used in a CAD-application.

So if anybody knows if there exists these kind of fonts, whether
as free or commercially available, then I would be very glad to
hear about them. (Please reply with mail, I will then summarize.)

Arigatoo gozaimasu!

Yours,

--
Antti Karttunen / karttu@mits.mdata.fi / $B%"%s%C%F%#!!%+%k%C%H%%%M%s(J
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: to3@ph3hp840.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Thomas Stuempfig)
Subject: intellifonts
Organization: Physikalisches Institut, U of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:20:44 GMT

Hello,

I'm searching for a font converter for Intellifonts (HP Laserjet scalable
fonts). It would be nice to have a vectorizer TIFF->INTELLIFONT.
Perhaps there are similar programs for Metafont-Files?

Regards
    Thomas Stuempfig

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From: ken@racerx.bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: CYRILLIC TrueType Font wanted
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:28:54 GMT
Organization: Planet Earth

In article <16B539723.STATDEMO@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de> STATDEMO@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de writes:
>
> 
>Where can I find/get/buy a Cyrillic (Russian) TrueType Font for
>MS Windows 3 ?? Any ftp site ?

I recommended to Andreas pub/pc/win3/fonts/truetype/cyrttf.zip at
wuarchive.wustl.edu, which I've installed under Windows (and which
I believe I've mentioned here before.)

I'm interested if anyone knows of any others that I might want to try.

-- 

Ken Hardy
ken@bridge.com  (racerx!ken)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: cei381@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jarre's laser harp)
Subject: can't download from cica.indiana.edu
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:28:57 GMT


The FAQ says that truetype fonts are available to FTP from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/truetype.  However, when I try
to get a directory listing from this site, I get told that anonymous
access is rejected.

Can anyone shead any light on this, or suggest alternative sources please?


Ta,


Michael Calvert. 
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:3867 misc.legal:22211
From: ken@Bridge.COM
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,misc.legal
Subject: Hershey Fonts legal status
Keywords: fonts, copyright
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:07:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: Planet Earth

I'm confused about the legal status of the Hershey fonts.  This is from
the README file in comp.sources.unix/volume4/hershey on uunet:

>USE RESTRICTION:
>  This distribution of the Hershey Fonts may be used by anyone for
>  any purpose, commercial or otherwise, providing that:
>    1. The following acknowledgements must be distributed with
>      the font data:
             (blah blah blah)

However, later it says:

>The Hershey Fonts:
>  - are in the public domain, with a few caveats:
>    - They are available from NTIS (National Technical Info.
>      Service) in a computer-readable from which is *not*
>      in the public domain. This format is described in
...
>    - This distribution is not in the NTIS format, and thus is
>      only subject to the simple restriction described
>      at the top of this file.


How can _any_ restrictions be applied to something in the public
domain?  It's my (possibly imperfect) understanding that if the creator
of something wants to retain the right to tell you what you can/cannot
do with it, that by definition means that he wants to retain the
copyRIGHT.  If, on the other hand, he puts the work into the public
domain, he can maintain _no_ rights to it, for it no longer belongs to
him but rather to the PUBLIC.  (Courtesy does not enter into the legal
questions presented here.)

Questions:

1)  Given the conflicting statements in the above quote, are the subject
    fonts in the public domain, or are they not?

2)  I've _not_ followed any discussion that may have been going on
    recently about the copyrightability of fonts.  Any (short)
    conclusions?

Independent of #2, I'd still like to know whether the self-conflicting
statement in the quote would release something to the public domain as
the author attempts to do, or whether the claim to the "simple
restriction" overrides that, maintaining the authors' copyright.


ALSO:  there appears to be some Hershey fonts in PostScript format in
the OpenWindows 3 lib/fonts directory.  A quick scan in that directory
does not reveal any acknowlegements.  Are these "real" Hershey fonts?
Do the requested acknowlegements exist elsewhere in Suns distribution
or documentation?

Am I looking at too old a distribution of the Hershey fonts?  This
whole dilemma _could_ have been resolved in a later release.


Ken Hardy
ken@bridge.com  (racerx!ken)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: fisherm@infonode.ingr.com (Matthew Fisher)
Subject: PCL4 question
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:31:50 GMT

Hello all,
  
    I am doing some HP LaserJet programming and need some help.  If a better
forum exists please let me know.
    I am looking for people who are experienced in PCL4 quirks. Here is my
current problem.  I want to download a new font in the middle of printing 
a page.  I issue some cursor commands, output text, draw a box,etc
and then I want to download a new font. For some reason the printer eject
the current page when I download my new font.  I cant figure out why. It
seems to work fine if I download all my fonts before I start the actual text.
I cannot do this however because the fonts are subject to change along the
way.


Matthew E Fisher
fisherm@infonode.ingr.com
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: STATDEMO@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de
Subject: CYRILLIC TrueType Font wanted
Organization: University of Passau - Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:44:51 GMT

 
Where can I find/get/buy a Cyrillic (Russian) TrueType Font for
MS Windows 3 ?? Any ftp site ?
 
Thanks in advance for any hints.
 
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