I have "standardized" the PS files on the MS website, so there should be no more problems. Sorry for the inconvenience. ---------- | From: Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> | To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com> | Cc: CryptoAPI Information Alias | Subject: Re: Microsoft's CryptoAPI - thoughts? | Date: Friday, January 26, 1996 3:02AM | | rickt@psa.pencom.com writes: | > [Info can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/inttech/cryptapi.htm] | | Has someone here managed to extract PostScript hardcopy of the | CAPI from this Web page? I tried earlier this evening and | wound up with a miniature | ecological disaster on my hands. The page says: | | "For ease of online reading and printing, we've provided copies of this | lengthy document in Microsoft Word and Postscript formats." | | I grabbed the ZIPped PostScript version and unZIPped it, which resulted in a | single file called "capiapp.ps". Making the wild assumption that this was | indeed a PostScript file, I sent it to the printer and forgot about it for a | while. | | An hour later I discovered a chaotic scene in the printer room, as the | printer had spewed about 1.5 reams of raw PostScript printouts. The output bin | had overflowed for a while, spraying paper in several directions. <heavy sigh> | | As it turns out, the file unhelpfully begins with | %-12345X@JPL ENTER LANGUAGE=POSTSCRIPT | preceding the usual "%!PS-Adobe-3.0" line. Worse still, it appears that the | capiapp.ps file is actually a catenation of many PostScript files (one per | chapter?), each beginning with a version of this ensnarling line. | | I could do some global search-and-replacing, etc., but I think I'll wait for | Microsoft to distribute a decent PS version of this document. Perhaps they | should consider not generating it with MS Word.... | | Grr! | | Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> |