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Bruce Sterling, Hacker Crackdown, Texinfo
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 17:50:07 -0500
The subject line says it all. The README is appended below. Get the book via anon. FTP from: server: ftp.Germany.EU.net folder: /pub/books/sterling/crackdown Happy hacking! -joke -- crackdown/$Id: README,v 1.1 1994/01/30 13:34:48 joke Rel $ Welcome to the Texinfo edition of: THE HACKER CRACKDOWN Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling bruces () well sf ca us Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use # This version of the book is reproduced by kind permisson of *Bruce Sterling* in the GNU Texinfo format, i.e., a TeX macro package developed at the *Free Software Foundation* that allows for easy "online manual" creation, while being convertible into a variety of different other formats. This "convertability scheme" has been extended in this project to the use of various PostScript typefaces. What does this mean for you? Well, you can print this book in any PS font you like, provided you have a certain set of freely available tools installed on your system. These tools are: TeX 3.14 and dvips(1) 5.516. That's all folks! (Hmmm, at least if you work on a unixoid system, that has a C-shell installed, in worst case you'll, have to read the "configure" script, and follow the steps by hand :-( That's why this distribution comes with some pre-generated versions, that should suit most needs, and for the *hackers* there's the "print-it-yourself" kit: |-README this file |-CONTENTS contents of the Hacker Crackdown |-crackdown-1.0-US.dvi.gz TeX DVI, US letter size |-crackdown-1.0-US.ps.gz Computer Modern PostScript, US letter |-crackdown-1.0.dvi.gz TeX DVI, A4 metric paper |-crackdown-|-crackdown-1.0.ps.gz Computer Modern PostScript, A4 paper |-crackdown-1.0.info.gz GNU Info format |-crackdown-1.0.tar.gz the "print-it-yourself" kit |-crackdown-1.0.txt.gz formatted ASCII # Anyway, in the best case, you unpack the "print-it-yourself kit", type in something like: example% configure --a4 --font palatino example% make ps To get the book on A4 (metric) paper, in the Palatino typeface. And print out the resulting PostScript file on your PostScript printer. For Computer Modern type fonts, i.e., the standard TeX fonts just don't use the "--font" option: example% configure --a4 example% make This is especially useful, if you don't want (or can't) use the PostScript option, but want to get a TeX DVI file only, to print this. As for the PostScript option: included are "times" = Times Roman, "palatino" = Palatino, "bookman" = Bookman, and "newcentury" = New Centry Schoolbook font files. But from the files in the "fonts" dir it's really straight formward to add support for others.) # Hackers (or other curious folks) should look into the "fonts" directory and examine "texinfo.foo", in conjunction with a peek into "configure", to see what's going on here. But anayway, all this is IMHO very easy to grasp. It should also be easy to add *any* available PostScript font. # Enjoy! -joke In article <2ijh07$okq () fbi-news informatik uni-dortmund de> heitkoet () home informatik uni-dortmund de (Joerg Heitkoetter) writes:
The subject line says it all. The README is appended below. Get the book via anon. FTP from: server: ftp.Germany.EU.net folder: /pub/books/sterling/crackdown
I checked, and I couldn't get access to the files (rwx permissions for other were turned off). I was able to download it from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.1, Project Gutenberg) in the directory /pub/etext/etext94. The files are hack11.txt and hack11a.txt. There may be a postscript version lying around on mrcnext, but I didn't check. -- Wilbur Kuo | kuo_wy () sunset bph jhu edu | "I only say what it "It's good to be the root" | root () sunset bph jhu edu | occurs to me to say. | kuo_wy () jhunix hcf jhu edu | More I cannot say." GS/CS/MU -d+@ p c++(++++) !l() u+(++) e+ m++ s n-(---) h f+ g+ w- t+() r- !y
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