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From: claude.hunter@nitelog.com (Claude Hunter) 
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: mac tt to pc fonts conver
Date: 15 Nov 92 13:51:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Nitelog BBS - Monterey, CA - 408-655-1096
Reply-To: claude.hunter@nitelog.com (Claude Hunter) 

DB>Does anyone know of a program to convert mac tt fonts

Try FontMonger!

Claude
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From: barham@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Need a font converter...
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:13:03 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Hello everybody,

I am looking for a utility (running under AmigaDOS preferably, but MS-
DOS is ok) to convert Adobe type 1 fonts to the AGFA Compugraphic
format.

Does anyone know of one?  Public domain would be preferable, but
commercial would be ok also.


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From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: FTP Sites for *PC* fonts wanted (Stupid me...*smirk*)
Date: 23 Nov 92 04:38:07 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...

q482@hosp.med.umich.edu (AV) writes:

> JEFF...and others...have you tried archie'ing to find what you're looking
> for?  Just asking.  Well, you could try this anonymous ftp:
Amy,
     This assumes that we have FTP capability. I, for one, am on a passive
polling site, so I have no direct connectivity to Internet, and no FTP
ability.

                                   JEff

...Just my $.02, less 6.75% sales tax, adjusted for inflation.
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Need a font converter...
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:42:50 GMT

In article <BxxB21.6G3@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)  
writes:
    *  In article <1992Nov18.131303.58765@qut.edu.au> barham@qut.edu.au writes:
    *  > I am looking for a utility (running under AmigaDOS preferably, but MS-
    *  > DOS is ok) to convert Adobe type 1 fonts to the AGFA Compugraphic
    *  > format.
    *  
    *  Actually, I was going to write one, but I don't know their
    *  (AGFA's) format.  Can I get that somewhere on the net? 
AGFA Compugraphic Division are at

AGFA Corporation
90 Industrial Way
Wilmington
Massachusetts 01887
I don't know their telephone number.  Call them and ask
for a copy of the Intellifont Scalable Typeface Format Specification.
Last time I looked, there was no charge for the book.

	........  Henry
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:3440 comp.os.misc:917 comp.os.msdos.misc:6265
From: dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.os.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: True Type fonts under DOS
Keywords: True Type
Date: 23 Nov 92 06:17:36 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

I want to be able to download True Type font bitmaps to my PCL 4
printer and print them from my (don't laugh) COBOL program under
DOS.  Does anyone know of a utility that I can call from my
program in DOS that will let me specify the fonts I want and control
their downloading.

Please respond with e-mail.

Thanks!


Without change,                         *David Barber*
   nothing can ever get better.            @}-->----

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INET: dbarber@crash.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell)
Subject: Re: 18th-c. colonial typeface needed
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:02:33 GMT

toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (prufrock) writes:

>Can anyone recommend a good share/cheapware typeface with the following
>features:

>1. old-style figures (i.e. non-lining numbers)
>2. long s character
>3. slightly irregular shapes a la type produced by colonial printers
>4. a decent complement of ligatures

>I produce a fair amount of publicity for a 122-year-old vocal group here at
>the University of Virginia, and occasionally create poster designs which
>cry out for the above features.

>I've tried Goudy Hundred, but it lacks (2) (unless I'm missing
>something).

>Any suggestions?  I'll take shareware or low-cost (hopefully) commercial,
>preferably for Mac; Type 1 or TrueType.

>Thanks in advance,
>tim jarrett

When I read your posting, I immediately thought: Goudy Hundred.
But as you have already tried it and are complaining about the
lack of a 2, I say: Goudy Hundred for the text and patch in some
nice ADOBE font with Old Style Figures.  Minion works well with
Goudy Hundred, I find.  Hope I helped...

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||    tel.  (510)845-2500    ||    keley's, or any one else's, for that mat-
||                           ||
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||       of System 7.0!      ||
||                           ||    fact that your computer, your house, your
| \_________________________/ |
|-----------------------------|    mother-in-law,  and / or the entire known
| *Macintosh Plus   ======    |
|                             |    Universe  might or  might not  explode in
|                             |
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From: rcomw@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Chris Cogdon)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: AFM to PFB conversion
Date: 16 Nov 1992 08:04:40 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
Keywords: AFM PFB metrics

Sorry if this subject has been tackled recently...

I have a large collection of Type 1 fonts that I would like to convert
to be able to run under ATM in MS Widnose. Converting the PFA to PFB is
trivial... but getting a working PFM file is not! Does anyone have a
reliable (reliable=non-MS publication) specification of the PFM format, or
have written a converter and don't want $1000 for it! (less is OK)

Thanks in advance for any assistance...

Chris Cogdon
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
From: zink@lindau.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de (Volker Zink)
Subject: Generationg an afm-file from a font!?
Keywords: fonts afm
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
              D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:37:54 GMT

	Hello,

i want to know if there is a pd-prg which can generate an afm-file
of the font (without the kerning) when only the font itself is
given (in pfa or pfb format). If not i will try to write such a thing
postscript itself.

Bye...
	Volker

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Universitaet Konstanz
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: hykok@nyx.cs.du.edu (Herbie Husker)
Subject: TTFonts Manager
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:47:53 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can get a TTFONT Manager?  I rather have a copy
that is public domain or freeware than a commercial one.  Any help to this
matter will be much appreciated.

                    Later,
                 Hon-Yin dude.
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Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
Subject: Differences between SE and EE Components
Followup-To: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu
Summary: Differences: SE and traditional engineering
Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:14:28 GMT

baragry@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU (Jason M Baragry) wrote:
> Are there any other differences / similarities between SE and traditional
> engineering disciplines that people can think of ? 

There's one small difference, a small matter apparently so minor that it
is never ever mentioned in posts such as yours, in OO training classes, or
in the SE literature in general. 

You can make *money* by selling EE components. That is, it is clear what
it means to own, to buy, and to sell tangible goods; goods that cannot be copied
in nanoseconds and copied at light-speed around the globe. Thus specialization
of labor works robustly to minimize complexity by encapsulating it inside 
each others' products. Reuse works because it is driven by commercial
self-interest.

Doesn't anyone else agree that this difference is not as unimportant as all
of SE tends to treat it?

See "What if there *is* a silver bullet...and the competition gets it first?";
Journal of OO Programming; June 1992 and Dr. Dobbs' Journal; October 1992.
-- 

    Brad Cox bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu 703 993 1142 work 703 968 8229 home
    Program on Social and Organizational Learning; George Mason University
From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Giga Byte Streamer Problem
Date: 22 Nov 1992 13:41:26 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: greco.uni-paderborn.de

Hi !

I've a problem. I like to use the Streamer GiGa 1200 (Giga Tape Corp) with
my Adaptec 1542 B. The Streamer should manage 1.2 GB Bakups onto a
120 min DAT Tape.

We only came up to 600 MB (Data Transfer Rate 6 MB/min). Where is the
Problem. Which Software could manage this ???

We tried NOVA, and Sytos. Are there better Programs ? Does anybody
know good parameters for NOVA Backup with such DAT Streamers ?              

We also have no manuals for the Streamer ! Is there anybody, who has worked
with it up to now ?


       Please answer via elm  toddy@uni-paderborn.de

                Thomas Rose

                Uni Paderborn
From: ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:40:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <16987@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>In article <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu> stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before
>>they're allowed to purchase a computer?
>
>There is a *BIG* *DIFFERENCE* between buying a computer and running a Unix
>system, especially one that's got classified information on it (at least,
>stuff that the public should NOT see).  Imagine a convicted killer going free
>because his file's been tampered with.
>
>And IF someone is running those systems, they had damn well BETTER know how
>to make the systems secure.  There should be *NO* passwords that are easily
>guessable (ideally), but *DEFINITELY* not the root one.
>
>>Jeff Stehman			Systems Staff, G-18A Jordan
>>stehman@cs.clemson.edu		Dept. of Computer Science
>>(803)656-2639			Clemson University
>------
>Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
>------
>Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
>to reform.
>		-- Mark Twain

A little note:  Because of the foibles in UNIX security, you would be a
*FOOL* to connect up a computer with your business's vital records or
trade secrets to the internet directly.  The best way to protect
sensitive data is to have the computer not connected to any network,
or to hide it behind at least two firewalls, one specially created to
block all incoming stuff, except for mail and news.  (Even that is
not secure...  Remember the debug mode in SendMail a couple of years
back...  The worms crawled in, the worms crawled out :-)

I am not a security expert, but if you are so horribly worried about
some data, keep it on a seperate computer safely locked up with Medeco
locks on the door, and good metal doors.  Internet connections can be
given to another computer for receiving mail, etc.

Here is another item:  If the data is vital, back it up, and store
the data and the backups on removable media.  Then, when you leave,
store the original in a safe that is bolted down, and store the backups
in a secure area, like a safety deposit box at your local bank.  This
method will secure from basically everything but scavenging for
palempsits (spelling?), or putting the operator under duress.

Any other ideas?

-- 
********** ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) **********
Windows NT:                  * Disclaimer:  I speak for myself *
                             ***********************************
You WANT your hard drive trashed now.
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: estrella@cass.ma02.bull.com (Gustavo Estrella)
Subject: Re: early Trojan Horse
Organization: Bull World Wide Information Systems Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:20:26 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.194057.19996@exlog.com> mcdowell@exlog.com (Steve McDowell) writes:
>
>In message <956@dsbc.icl.co.uk> kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov18.202710.9652@mcs.kent.edu> keithf@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Keith Fuller) writes:
>>
>>> I heard that early UNIX systems came with a Trojan Horse.
>>> As I remember, the C compiler would compile one of the utilities
>>> in a way that would give a knowledgable person entry into any UNIX
>>> system.
>> 
>> As I remember it, cc used to recognize a peice of code as being
>> from the login program.  When you compiled login, the resulting
>> executable would have a back door login in it.
>
>Well, I don't know if that was ever implemented and I'd be very surprised if it
>ever made it out of the lab if it was. 
>
>This means of attack was discussed by Dennis Ritchie in an early papaer (mid-70's) 
>on UNIX security as an option that's available to would-be-crackers with source code. 
>If I remember correctly, the paper was distributed with the Version 7 manual set. 

I remember reading somewhere aboit this.  As I recall it, in addition to the 
cc program looking for the login code it would also look for a recompilation
of the cc program itself.  This way, as people would become suspisious and 
recompile the compiler with clean source, it would include the code to 
look for the login code.

I though that the code spread outside of the Bell Labs.

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Xref: sparky comp.security.misc:1812 sci.crypt:5125
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,sci.crypt
Subject: .ARJ password cracker
From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:06:42 EST
Organization: Penn State Star Trek club
X-Star-Trek-Quote: He's Dead Jim.
X-School: Penn State University
X-Nickname: <<APOCALYPSE>>, Lord of Destruction

This was originally posted to comp.compression, and someone suggested I might
get a better answer in one of these groups....so:

>My friend made a MAJOR boo-boo (tm) a few days ago.  He accidentally lost
>his "little black book" where he kept among other things the passwords to
>his .ARJed archives.  He has some of the files, but for most of them, the
>only copy he has left is in the archive, and he can't get to them.  I know
>I've read about password crackers for WordPerfect documents, and .ZIP files.
>Is there such a beast for .ARJ files?
>
>Thanx,
>
>       Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
>         <<APOCALYPSE>>                  meb@haydn.psu.edu
From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:47:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: talon.1es54eINNg00
Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
NNTP-Posting-Host: skyking.oce.orst.edu

In article <1992Nov23.204917.19519@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
>>>>filed with the charges stated. ``He then transferred the password file
>>>>to a Boeing Company computer, where he decrypted the passwords.''
>>>>      That process gave Anderson the ``root'' password, which allowed
>>If decrypting the passwords gave him the root password, then yes, Dave,
>>they cracked the root password.
>
>"That process gave Anderson the root password". That could also mean
>that by getting a random account on the machine they _acquired_ root
>access, and then changed the password. 

Allright Dave. Whatever you say. Even though the process as described
didn't include logging back into the broken system and entering another
security hole to get root access, that must be what the article wanted
to say.

Even though the antecedent to the "That process" is only in the two
lines immediately prior to it, there must be another "that process"
that is being referred to.

Whatever you want, Dave. Have a nice day. Goodbye.
From: mgkst1+@pitt.edu (Michael G Koopman)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Mail forging
Summary: Informed users are your best security investment
Keywords: mail, user awareness
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:07:09 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

As a user not aware of many security issues since I have real work to
do and almost a life therefore not enough time to read this newsgroup
- OOPS gotta go.....  

If I recall where this began correctly the original issue concerned
mail forgery by a cracker requesting that a user change her password.
A site at which user's will naively change passwords based on an
e-mail message has not kept up on enlightenment of the users.  Any
user should verify such a message in some way before acting on it.

Naive users may be a system administrators worst security risk.  By
following this track it seems obvious that sys admins may consider
more layers of faulty security code the right thing.  As a user at my
company I feel obliged to poke my head out of the foxhole to see if
someone is coming, once in a while, at least.  When "funny" things
happen here the system administration is informed.  The administrators
need to have the experience to recognize which curiousities show the
greatest potential for revealing security holes.

There is more than one benefit to teaching users to "pester" root
about unexpected occurrences.  The "funny" things users notice which
are not the result of unauthorized access are likely to be the result
of user errors.  Less user errors mean more productive systems which
means sys admins get raises, right?  Well, in a perfect world ....

Make your users your allies.

If your users know how the box is supposed to act they can tell you
when it isn't doing what it should which ~might~ help flag
impropriety.  If the box (user activities included) is acting as it is
supposed to act isn't the sys admin doing 90% of her job right,
anyway?  That additional 10% as deputy sheriff is just to prove you
hate those bad guys, anyway.  In the U.S. isn't the FBI supposed to
keep the lines free from wiretaps and the like (with all of us good
citizens' help, of course)?  If you have significant security risks,
e.g. interpol records, what the Henry Ford are you doing on publicly
accessible nets?  IMHO
-- 
Mike Koopman
Concurrent Technologies Corporation     phone:   +1-814-269-2637
1450 Scalp Avenue                       telefax: +1-814-269-2666
Johnstown, PA  15904                    e-mail:  koopman@server1.ctc.com
Xref: sparky comp.security.misc:1784 alt.security:4830
From: stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jeff Stehman)
Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
Reply-To: stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:13:41 GMT

From article <1992Nov13.172230.3045@das.harvard.edu>, by adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack):
>>Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before
>>they're allowed to purchase a computer?
> 
> No, I'd like too see vendors ship a decent version of password, say
> npasswd.
> 
> I'd also like to see a two-three page readme on securing your
> workstation, and some slightly tougher defaults, like not putting that
> "+" in Sun's /etc/hosts.
> 
> Closing a few simple holes probably makes an awful lot of difference.


Exactly.

--
Jeff Stehman			Systems Staff, G-18A Jordan
stehman@cs.clemson.edu		Dept. of Computer Science
(803)656-2639			Clemson University
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: normile.j@applelink@apple.com (James Normile)
Subject: encryption for wireless networks
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:59:34 GMT
Organization: Apple

Hi there,
I'd appreciate any information on practical techniques for encrypting data on 
wireless networks, are standards developing?, is any technology available?
Thanks
James Normile
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: agulbra@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Subject: Re: anonymous FTP checklist
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 02:17:56 GMT

In article <drector.722195714@math.uci.edu> drector@math.uci.edu (David Rector) writes:
...
>If you find it necessary to have an "incoming" directory, that is a
>directory with write privileges, be sure to check it regularly for
>unwanted material, or you might find yourself playing host to an
>unwanted---or even illegal---bulletin board.  A favorite trick of
>bb creators is to hide their files from the ls command by prefixing the
>file names with periods or other unprintable characters.  Use the
>-a option to ls, or use du, to search for unwanted files.
>
>I need hardly add that I am a recent victim of this scam.  I forgot
>about the -a option.

I, too, once had 100 FTP logins in 24 hours... my advice is to patch
the ftp daemon so files uploaded by guests have to be chown'd or cp'd
before they can be downloaded by guests.

The change is easy enough, you insert something like this immediately
after the check for special files (search for 'plain file' in ftpd.c):
    if ((guest)&&(st.st_uid==(getpwnam("ftp")->pw_uid))) {
        reply(550, "%s: not retrievable by guests.", name);
        goto done;
    }
This may not be perfect C, I typed it from memory, but you get the
drift.

--Arnt
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc