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Experimental Gopher

#2849
From: Norman Walsh
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:18
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Greetings,

Over the last couple of lunch breaks, I've established an experimental gopher
with the following feature: you can retreive small GIF image samples of most
of the internet-available PostScript and MetaFont fonts.  I had the images
lying around (more or less) so I thought I'd set this thing up and see what
people think.

The gopher is at ibis.cs.umass.edu, port 70.

This is a very experimental thing so it may or may not be up at any given time
(though it's _usually_ up right now).  If it becomes too resource consumptive,
it'll have to go.  But I am hoping for some feedback so please try it and let
me know what you think (if you're interested in fonts at all).

If anyone who maintains a more permanent gopher would like to put this service
up locally, let me know and I'll arrange to get the images and directories to
you.

                                                  Enjoy,
                                                    norm
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Norman Walsh         | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
<walsh@cs.umass.edu> | CMPSCI Dept., LGRC A210 | Standard disclaimer applies
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