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From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: designing my own TRUE TYPE fonts?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:32:31 GMT

From what I understand, FontMONGER is a *commercial* (not shareware)
program that CONVERTS (but does not design) fonts into Truetype fonts.
In other words, you could convert a Postscript Type I or Type III font
(among other types) into a Truetype font.

Fontographer, also commercial, is a FONT DESIGNER.  It will probably
run around $500 or $600.

I have never used either of the above.

But that should clear things up.

Sharon O'Neil
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: dan@sil.org (Dan Lord)
Subject: TrueType hinting of composite characters
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:54:37 GMT

I've read the TrueType spec, but I still have a question.  (Perhaps I didn't
read it carefully enough.  If not, please forgive me.) If one was to take a
hinted character, e.g., an 'a', and combine it with a hinted diacritic, e.g., a
tilde, thus creating a new character, when the composite character is rendered,
are the hints of the individual pieces applied?  Or, does one need to re-hint
the new character? 

Do the previous questions make sense?

Thank you in advance for any help offered.
-- 
Dan Lord                            
Summer Institute of Linguistics      Phone: (214)709-3319
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road          Internet: dan@sil.org
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: Manipulation Truetype fonts
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:33:39 EDT

Is there a way to convert TrueType fonts for Windows3.1 so
that they can be used on a Mac? (without the aid of something
like FontMonger)
--Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu
From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Sabon typeface???
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:12:34 GMT
Organization: U of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics

dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:

>In article <1992Jul22.185416.626@coli.uni-sb.de>, ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring) writes:
>> Thanks everybody for answering, I summarize:
> 
>> Sabon is available from Adobe ($89 - limited offer) and Linotype-Hell.
>> There is an Adobe publication "Font and Function" which seems to answer these
>> kinds of questions pretty well.

>Only if you want to restrict your universe to Adobe. Monotype has
>a version of Sabon which is not listed in F&F. There is no
>universal typeface directory to the best of my knowledge.

>-d

Whereas to the best of my knowledge the Sabon font was the first one to be available for the Monotype AND the Linotronic imagesetters in identical versions.
(BTW also for manual setting) Which seems to indicate that the Sabon font is
somehow universal. However I haven't seen it anywhere except printed.

Ulrich Mayring
volksdesign.

       - I reject generalizations on principle -h
From: dodel@CAM.ORG (Jean-Pierre Dodel)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: How to Make bitmaps out of Outlines??
Summary: How to Make bitmaps out of Outlines??
Keywords: bit-maps
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:56:38 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, QC CANADA

For IBM compatibles:
===================

I am looking for a program that creates bitmap versions of the postscript
version of a given font. My problem is that I have the postscript fonts
(.PFB) and the .PFM files and I would like to create the corresponding
bitmaps (.ABF, I think).

thanks...


-JP

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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: olivier@hundun.cnd.mcgill.ca (Olivier Georg)
Subject: what are these Types?
Organization: McGill University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:40:06 GMT

Hi,

I'm new here, and I've seen a few different kind of fonts (TrueType, Type1,
Type 3, etc). What is the difference between them, are there other kind of
fonts, and what's the difference between a postscript font for PC and one for
the mac.

Thanks a lot,
			Olivier Georg.
From: fischths@wmavm7.ibm.com (Scott Fischthal)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:19:15 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Arabic ATM fonts
Organization: IBM Federal Systems Co.
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

I'm looking for an Arabic language Type 1 ATM font.  Does anyone know
where I can find one?  Commercial, shareware or public domain are all
acceptable.  Thanks!!!

Scott Fischthal
Artificial Intelligence Technology Center
IBM Federal Systems Company
Gaithersburg, MD
From: fischths@wmavm7.ibm.com (Scott Fischthal)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:23:30 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Trades
Organization: IBM Federal Systems Co.
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <1992Jul24.041314.26357@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>

My apologies -- in my previous posting requesting information about an
Arabic language Adobe Type 1 fonts, I forgot to mention that I was
looking for a DOS, Windows or (preferably) OS/2 font (not Mac).  BTW,
thanks to those who've responded so far.

Scott Fischthal
Artificial Intelligence Technology Center
IBM Federal Systems Company
Gaithersburg, MD
From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: PM4 vs. TrueType Technology???
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:41:16 GMT
Organization: U of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics

Hello people,
I have encountered a strange phenomenon with PM4 under Windows 3.1 and True
Type fonts. When typing certain combinations of letters (e.g. "Di" in 
Diego-Light or "Ha" in Harquil (Does everybody see the connection?)) PM4
force-adjust them, meaning it puts the first letter at the left margin of
my column and the second one at the right margin leaving lots of space ins in
between. I suspect a conversion error, (maybe All-Type?), since most of these
fonts positively are Postscript. Playing around with the .fot file fixed
the bug once, but since it really was playing around I can't really tell
what I did. Can anyone?

Ulrich Mayring
volksdesign.
From: "gord armstrong" <gord.armstrong@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: gem format ?
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:39:23 EST
Reply-To: "gord armstrong" <gord.armstrong@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

To: comp.fonts

I want to write a simple GUI package for the OS/2 environment in the
CGA 640x200 mode (yeah, I know...higher res later on). I need at least
2 font sizes, an 8pt and 15pt (approx).

From what I've seen, the GEM fonts look good in the CGA mode, though
they're not scalable (as far as I know??) and there's also tons of
fonts around. Besides Ventura, these fonts are also used by GENUS
in their GX TEXT program (they use a .GFT suffix).

What I'd like to know if anyone has the format of the GEM font.
Someone told me what I want is the "GEM font format by Digital
Research v3.0 in unpacked format". I don't know what 'unpacked
format' means?

If anyone has the GEM format, may I have a copy please? Any
source code would be a bonus (DOS or OS/2). Thanks.

gord
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: scimeddd@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Library of Sciences and Medicine Document Delivery)
Subject: international phonetics font
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:04:15 GMT

I'm looking for a font which contains all the phonetic symbols. It must be
the IPA (?) codes (sorry asking for a friend and don't quite recall what he
said). Any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance, 
Mark - scimeddd@gpu.utcs.utoronto.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: tomg@stud.cs.uit.no (Tom Grydeland)
Subject: Morals in distributing typeface
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:57:37 GMT

Considering the previous discussion on typeface protection in this group, I
thought this would be the right place to post this problem.

I've been requested by a friend who has written a game to make a
`computer/space-looking' font (in a small format) for use to write messages to the
players in the game.

I got hold of a LetraSet catalogue and quickly made a 9x13 monospaced font
in bitmap (.bdf) format which
looked as close to DATA70 as I could manage in such a cramped format and a
justified spaced version of the same. I added Norwegian characters and a lot more
delimiters than illustrated in the original font.

As long as the font is used in the game here on the local system ONLY, I think
this is OK. But as soon as this is included in the distribution of the game I'm
not so sure anymore. I'd like you all to give me some views, and I'll post a
summary to the net.

Thanx all.
--
//tomg@stud.cs.uit.no (Tom Grydeland)+47 8375164; Tunvn.29 B21,N-9018,Troms\o
"I quite agree with you," said the Dutchess; "and the moral of that is- `Be what
you would seem to to be'-or if you'd like to put it more simply- `Never imagine
yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you
were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have
appeared to them to be otherwise'"  --The Dutchess `Alice in wonderland'
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Mac->PC (was Re: International Phonetics font)
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:42:36 GMT
	<WALSH.92Jul22193922@ibis.cs.umass.edu> <ILH.92Jul23125836@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu>
In-reply-to: ilh@lcs.mit.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 17:58:36 GMT


In article <ILH.92Jul23125836@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu> ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:

   In article <WALSH.92Jul22193922@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
   walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh) writes:
      Just a point of clarification: the requirement that the .AFM file
      be provided with the Mac Type1 font has been removed.  It is now
      possible to perform the conversion with only the Mac screen font
      file and the Mac Type1 file.

   However, in the case of TechPhonetic, the AFM file contains a lot of
   kerning information which I don't believe is contained in the Mac
   screen font file.  This kerning might be useful on the PC.

The FOND resource of the Mac screen font SHOULD carry the kerning information.
If it doesn't, then it wasn't constructed properly.

				*** BUT ***

That is not to say that the FOND resource carries all of the
information in the AFM file.  Far from it.  The same goes for PFM files
in MS Windows.  Neither has anything to say about ligatures, or about
unencoded characters, for example.  Which can be a problem, since the
two platforms use different default encodings (Mac `standard roman
encoding' versus MS Windows `ANSI').  A font may have the characters needed
for the other platform, but the metric informatioon isn't there since it
wasn't needed on the original platform.  

Moral:  The AFM file is the ultimate repository of metric information.
	Insist on getting one with your fonts.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:49:04 GMT

dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
}dag@ossi.com (Darren Alex Griffiths) writes:
} [...finger...]  Even worse, [you can find idle usernames].
}Isn't this carrying security by obscurity just a bit too far?  In
}today's networking world, finding usernames is too easy.  Just scan
}Usenet and collect email addresses -- you can build up a HUGE
}collection in a day.  If you want idle usenames, well, do another scan
}a month later, and look for the ones that aren't found any more.

Nothing says a site has to use usernames as e-mail/news addresses.
I expect firstname.lastname@site will probably become more popular
for this and other reasons.

John
-- 
John Hascall                                       ``Live with it pink-boy!''
Project Vincent                                                              
Iowa State University Computation Center                     john@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011                                      515/294-9551 [fax -1717]
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:03:53 GMT

George> == George Michaelson <ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> 

 George> I would prefer to see an explicit 'distributed information'
 George> protocol to replace finger being used for:

 George> 	email address lookup
 George> 	directory service call
 George> 	generalised information checks

 George> leaving finger alone to be used for what it was designed for. I
 George> can then confidently know calls onto finger are just that:
 George> people testing machine usage/uptime status, and decide to be
 George> paranoid or not as the case dictates.

whois (port 43) should be used for the first two.  The latter (I presume
you mean stuff like weather, restaurant menus, etc) should probably find
another port too, but I don't have any suggestions.

You're right, though, finger is *way* overloaded these days.
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
   ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient.  But that is besides the
  point.  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
         to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
Xref: sparky comp.security.misc:822 alt.security:4014 comp.unix.ultrix:5901
From: pcl@oxford.ac.uk (Paul Leyland)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,alt.security,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Problem with npasswd??
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:08:10 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2
	6NN


Some while ago, I ported Clyde Hoover's npasswd program to Ultrix
ENHANCED security.  A few people have been beta testing it since then.

At our site, I *may* have found a problem, though I have no idea
whether I broke the Ultrix specific code, or if it is a bug in the
generic code.  This under Ultrix v4.2a

Third-party password changes sometimes change *root's* password.  That
is, suppose I (pcl) am approached by jruser to change their password.
I type something like:
	% \/bin/su - root
	Password:
	# npasswd jruser
	...

If I make a typo at this point, and have to have another go at
changing jruser's password (still in the same invocation of npasswd,
BTW) and succeed in getting a password through, I *sometimes* find
that root's password has been changed and the user's has not.  My
password is left unchanged. (Phew!)

As a work round, I always ensure I get it right first time, or ^C out
on first error.

I am unable to make it fail solidly.  I have never been able to make
it fail running under dbx, where I can monitor what is going on.


Does anyone have any ideas?  As you might guess, I'm keen to clear
this up quickly.

Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: spexet@engin.umich.edu (Dennis Robert Spexet)
Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:51:07 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world 

In article <1992Jul28.203324.15206@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, by greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu:
>
>>to it.  But since it was a test and not expected to remain online forever,
>>we did not bother registering the domain name - and we were under no obligation
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>to do so because it was through the commercial Internet and therefor not
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>under the auspices of the NIC and the NSF.
>
>
> 2.  Assuming you really _have_ no obligation to register a temporary
>     domain name with "The NIC", how do you prevent collisions in the
>     domain name-space?  It would seem that there has to be _some_
>     central clearinghouse to prevent such collisions.
>     'lends' one of its _own_ IP addresses to this new entity.)

It is especially odd in light of what the advertising from UUNet and PSInet
(two major commercial network service providers) says.  According to their
promotional literature, one service that they will provide to anyone that
buys their Internet connection from them is domain registration at
the DDN Network Information Center.  Specifically, said literature states
that entries for any particular domain name will be registered at nic.ddn.mil.

Here is a question that, paradoxically, may help to clear this up:  Were
domain names to be used for connecting to the host in this test?  Specifically,
was it intended for users to telnet to "pleasure.com" (or whatever it was,)
or were they intended to telnet to xxx.yyy.zzz.www, a numbered IP address?  I
recall reading about this service in alt.sex, I think.  I believe that testers
were asked to telnet to a numbered address, rather than to a named address.

If this was indeed the case, then the lack of domain name registration would
make some sense, since it would not be intended for users to telnet to
"pleasure.com".  "pleasure.com" would simply be a convenient name to use
during the test -- especially if there were only one host in the "domain".

>Or am I missing something very obvious in what transpired here?

I must be missing something too.

>Confused and puzzled by the situation,

So am I.

>-- 
>John G Dobnick                          ATTnet: (414) 229-5727
>Computing Services Division             INTERNET: jgd@uwm.edu
>University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee     UUCP: uunet!uwm!jgd
>
>"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation,
>and is thus a source of civilized delight."  -- William Safire


-- 
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Terminology for firewalls (was Re: Firewall usage)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:34:14 GMT

atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:

>  The other terms were OK, but the term "trusted" usually refers to a
>component believed not to compromise a multilevel security policy
>(e.g. Bell-Lapadula).
>  I would suggest just using "application gateway" instead.

	Excellent suggestion and duly noted. I will now go fix up various
documentation and stuff in progress.

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: dag@ossi.com (Darren Alex Griffiths)
Subject: Re: root-owned world-writable files
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:54:10 GMT

evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:

>This sounds like the same sort of philophicy used in VAX/VMS if it can't find
>SYS$UAF (the equivalent of /etc/password)
>It gives you all privs.
>I think the assumption (on the part of the OS) is that the file system
>is trashed and you need the privs to fix it.
>(though I have a feeling that VMS will only allow a console login in
>that situation)

That's correct.  If the authorization file disappears then you can go to
the console and get full access, but you can't login from any other 
terminal.  Requiring physical access to the console in this situation is
not a security hole IMHO, it is similar to bringing the system up in
single-user mode with Unix, although some Unix systems require a password
for this.  With VMS you can also boot the system with an alternate boot 
file, and then specify the console device as that file, which gives similar
results to bring up a Unix system in single user mode.


   --dag
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From: jon_care@hicom.lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: root-owned world-writable files
Date: 23 Jul 92 01:19:52 GMT
Reply-To: jon_care@hicom.lut.ac.uk
Organization: Hicom Sevices

In article <1992Jul22.134745.17309@newshost.lanl.gov>, jfowler@beta.lanl.gov (John C. Fowler) writes:
>In article <14htt0INNiep@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>>How do you get a complete list of files that are trusted by root, or by
>>programs that root trusts (that is, are setuid root)?
>
>To find out if a file is trusted, go to the man directories and grep the
>filename on everything, then read the associated man pages where the filename
>turned up (important files usually have their own man pages as well).
>
>To find setuid root files, use the "find" command.
>
>>Much easier to simply not have world-writable files owned by root.
>
>Agreed.  Much easier to simply not have world-writable files at all, unless
>you can come up with a real reason for needing them.  With UNIX supporting
>setuid and setgid programs, it's fairly easy to work around these days.
>
>But I still contend that there's nothing "special" about root owning a
>world-writable file that would allow a user to exploit it over anyone else
>owning the same file, other than getting around quotas.
An exception occurs to me in the case of /etc/utmp under SunOS 4.1.1 - the mode
this is set to by default is 666, hence it is world writeable.
If you reedit this with a simple C Program, you can make yourself invisible to
who commands etc. and also can evade certain accounting programs.

>
>-- 
>John C. Fowler, jfowler@lanl.gov
Jon Care, jonc@sc.plym.ac.uk.
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: COMPUTER DISKS THRU AIRPORT X-RAY ? ASAP
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:47:51 GMT

In article <pkershaw-270792112759@192.94.50.51>, pkershaw@dce.com (Peter Kershaw) writes:
> It has been known for years that xray has harmful effects on magnetic media
> and print film.

Umm -- I've never heard that x-rays, per se, affect magnetic media, at
least at the levels customarily used for screening.  However, the magnets
in the x-ray machine and/or the conveyor belt motor are another matter.

> Consequently, I
> never allow any "mission critical" items to be passed through airport xray,
> but insist they be hand checked.

U.S. rules permit this option; I don't think this is true everywhere
in the world, though.  Your mileage (or rather, your kilometerage...)
may vary...
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:31:50 GMT
Organization: Aston University

atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
: To clarify:
: 
:   The site "pleasure.com" was required to obtain a valid domain name
: (from the DDN NIC since *.com is not delegated) and did not do so.
: This is at best uncivilised behaviour by the folks who ran that site.

One would hope that they were, at least using a vaild IP number
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