Index of files in /pub/tex/dosfonts

/u/ftp/pub/tex/dosfonts/index, Mon Apr 10 12:16:35 1995
Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected]>

This directory contains TeX fonts in arc format for PC DOS only.
If you want these fonts for VAX VMS, get them instead from
ctrsci.math.utah.edu.  For TOPS-20 and UNIX, get them from
math.utah.edu or science.utah.edu.  The 00readme.txt files on
each machine give instructions for doing so.

Some users have trouble sustaining Internet transfers for
large files, so the *.arc files are split into pieces
*.arc-nnn.  Their sizes (except possibly for the last) are
multiples of 512, so as to match disk block sizes on all
machines.  They must be concatenated in order to get the
original file (e.g. on UNIX: cat cm.arc-* >cm.arc).

For retrievals to PC DOS, files xx.arc-nnn are linked to 
names xx-nnn.arc; the contents are identical.

PC DOS imposes serious length restrictions on filenames, so
different font file naming conventions are used for it than
for the other operating systems.  The font file contents are
identical; in fact, the PC DOS font tree is created by making
hard file links to the UNIX font tree, so no significant
additional space is required for it.

The fonts have all been created with METAFONT's \mode=imagen;
they are suitable for 300dpi black-writing laser printers
(engines from Canon), such as those from Apple,
Hewlett-Packard, and QMS/Imagen.  They will be too faint on
white-writing printers (engines from Ricoh and Xerox), such as
the AST, DEC LN03, Personal Computer Products, and Xerox
printers.

In major font families, a wide range of magnifications has
been prepared, so that negative magsteps of the 300dpi family
can also serve for low resolution devices, such as screen
previewers and dot matrix printers.

For PC DOS, transfer the *.arc files you want, plus UNPACK*.BAT.
Put these files in the directory you want to unpack the fonts
in, and then type UNPACK to unbundle them.  You will need
pkunpak to do so.  If you have only arc, pkarc, or pkzip, then
a simple edit to the *.BAT files will fix them for use with one
of those.

For example:
        mkdir c:\tex\fonts
        ftp ...get *.arc and *.BAT...
        UNPACK

This will create the directory tree
        c:\tex\fonts\ams
                c:\tex\fonts\ams\300
                ...
                c:\tex\fonts\ams\896
        c:\tex\fonts\cm
                c:\tex\fonts\cm\83
                ...
                c:\tex\fonts\cm\1075
        c:\tex\fonts\concrete
                c:\tex\fonts\concrete\300
                ...
                c:\tex\fonts\concrete\896
        c:\tex\fonts\euler
                c:\tex\fonts\euler\300
                ...
                c:\tex\fonts\euler\360
        c:\tex\fonts\greek
                c:\tex\fonts\greek\300
        c:\tex\fonts\music
                c:\tex\fonts\music\300
        c:\tex\fonts\pandora
                c:\tex\fonts\pandora\83
                ...
                c:\tex\fonts\pandora\1075

For AMSTeX, LaTeX, SLiTeX, and TeX, you can use them provided
you do

set TEXFONTS=c:\tex\fonts\cm;c:\tex\fonts\ams

If you use fonts from some of the other families, then just
add the corresponding directories to the end of the TEXFONTS
list.

If you want the style files for pandora accessible, do
something like

set TEXINPUTS=c:\tex\inputs;c:\tex\latex;c:\tex\bibtex;c:\tex\amstex;c:\tex\fonts\pandora

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