RSA's faq hosed up?

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4 total messages Started by jimkirk Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:35

#942

Author: jimkirk
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:35

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I recently obtainted the faq from rsa.com, but the postscript file seems
messed up.  When viewed with DEC's dxpsview utility (DECstation 3100,
Ultrix), I first get an error message about no enough memory, then
dxpsview hangs when I try to view the next page.

If sent to an HP laserjet with PacificPage cartridge, I get the title
page and table of contents, then the printer hangs.  The title page
in two places has characters overprinted (the "k" and "e" of "Asked"
and the "h" and "y" of "Cryptography"), and it looks like the file
was actually generated this way, suggesting a bad run of TeX to
PostScript.

Has anybody gotten their .ps file to print/view correctly?

Jim Kirkpatrick
jimkirk@corral.uwyo.edu

Re: RSA's faq hosed up?

#946

Author: Robert D. Silverman
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:09

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In article <1992Sep14.163511.204@news.uwyo.edu> jimkirk@news.uwyo.edu writes:
:I recently obtainted the faq from rsa.com, but the postscript file seems
:messed up.  When viewed with DEC's dxpsview utility (DECstation 3100,
:Ultrix), I first get an error message about no enough memory, then
:dxpsview hangs when I try to view the next page.
:
:If sent to an HP laserjet with PacificPage cartridge, I get the title
:page and table of contents, then the printer hangs.  The title page
 
I get the same exact problem.
--
Bob Silverman
These are my opinions and not MITRE's.
Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730
"You can lead a horse's ass to knowledge, but you can't make him think"

Re: RSA's faq hosed up?

#949

Author: Pierre Uszynski
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:30

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In <1992Sep15.000957.23286@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:

>In article <1992Sep14.163511.204@news.uwyo.edu> jimkirk@news.uwyo.edu writes:
>:I recently obtainted the faq from rsa.com, but the postscript file seems
>:messed up.  When viewed with DEC's dxpsview utility (DECstation 3100,
>:[...]
>:If sent to an HP laserjet with PacificPage cartridge, I get the title
>:page and table of contents, then the printer hangs.  The title page
> 
>I get the same exact problem.

Nothing really unusual for a Postscript file: Here it fails on 2
previewers (SUN's pageview, and on Ghostscript), but prints fine on a
SparcPrinter...

Pierre.
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       Pierre Uszynski, Philips Research Palo Alto, CA, USA
            USA-415-354-0328, pierre@PRPA.Philips.COM

Re: RSA's faq hosed up?

#964

Author: Billy E. Taylor Jr.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:21

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In article <1992Sep14.163511.204@news.uwyo.edu> jimkirk@news.uwyo.edu writes:
> I recently obtainted the faq from rsa.com, but the postscript file seems
> messed up.  When viewed with DEC's dxpsview utility (DECstation 3100,
> Ultrix), I first get an error message about no enough memory, then
> dxpsview hangs when I try to view the next page.
> [...more deleted...]
Here's the readme from the /pub/faq directory on rsa.com:
======================================================================
This directory contains files for the document

                         Answers To
                 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
                 About Today's Cryptography

                       by Paul Fahn
             A Publication of RSA Laboratories

It is available in three formats:

1. postscript
   Take the file faq.ps.Z. Uncompress to obtain faq.ps. If it fails to
   print due to lack of memory in your printer (it is a very large file),
   take the file faq-k.ps.Z, uncompress to obtain faq-k.ps.

2. LaTeX
   Take the files faq.tex and crypto.bib. Run latex on faq.tex and bibtex
   on crypto.bib. Do this for a couple of iterations to ensure correctness.

3. Hard copy
   Send $20 (to cover expenses) to 
     RSA Laboratories, 100 Marine Parkway, Redwood City, CA  94065.

Send questions, comments, and suggestions to faq-editor@rsa.com.
===========================================================================

rtfming my heart out,
billy.

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