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Operating Systems Linux Fedora CNR download problems Post 302401107 by pludi on Friday 5th of March 2010 01:35:24 AM
Old 03-05-2010
I'll (hopefully successful) compare distributions to cars. Every car has a combustion engine that works on the same principle, in an OS that's the kernel. A subgroup of those exposes the same connectors to the outside (aka API). Linux is a even more special subgroup of those, like an engine manufactured by one company, but used by many others, that might or might not make special adaptations, but nothing too extreme.

Around that, every car has a frame, some electrics, headlights, ... Some of those are specified by law (in the UNIX world the POSIX standard), but can be adapted for special needs. As software those are called the tool set. Most Linux distributions use the GNU line of tools, as they're completely Open Source. This lead to the term "GNU/Linux" to indicate that this distribution uses the GNU tools around the Linux kernel.

But if all cars looked the same the everyday commute would be even more boring than it is now. Same goes for distributions, which is why every one of them does some small thing a bit different. They're all compatible for the most part, but differ on what software ships by default, how certain things are configured, and how to configure some very specific parts.

The currently most used distribution probably is Ubuntu, which is derived from Debian GNU/Linux. Another is Fedora, which is the base for RHEL. One of the oldest distributions still out there is Slackware.

And then there are even more free Unices like FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, NetBSD, and MINIX. Or crossovers like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
 

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download(1)							   User Commands						       download(1)

NAME
download - host resident PostScript font downloader SYNOPSIS
download [-f] [-p printer] [-m name] [-H directory] [file...] /usr/lib/lp/postscript/download DESCRIPTION
download prepends host resident fonts to files and writes the results on the standard output. If no files are specified, or if - is one of the input files, the standard input is read. download assumes the input files make up a single PostScript job and that requested fonts can be included at the start of each input file. Requested fonts are named in a comment (marked with %%DocumentFonts:) in the input files. Available fonts are the ones listed in the map table selected using the -m option. The map table consists of fontname-file pairs. The fontname is the full name of the PostScript font, exactly as it would appear in a %%Doc- umentFonts: comment. The file is the pathname of the host resident font. A file that begins with a / is used as is. Otherwise the pathname is relative to the host font directory. Comments are introduced by % (as in PostScript) and extend to the end of the line. The only candidates for downloading are fonts listed in the map table that point download to readable files. A font is downloaded once, at most. Requests for unlisted fonts or inaccessible files are ignored. All requests are ignored if the map table can not be read. OPTIONS
-f Force a complete scan of each input file. In the absence of an explicit comment pointing download to the end of the file, the default scan stops immediately after the PostScript header comments. -p printer Check the list of printer-resident fonts in /etc/lp/printers/printer/residentfonts before downloading. -m name Use name as the font map table. A name that begins with / is the full pathname of the map table and is used as is. Other- wise name is appended to the pathname of the host font directory. -H directory Use dir as the host font directory. The default is /usr/lib/lp/postscript. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Examples of the download command. The following map table could be used to control the downloading of the Bookman font family: % % The first string is the full PostScript font name. The second string % is the file name - relative to the host font directory unless it begins % with a /. % Bookman-Light bookman/light Bookman-LightItalic bookman/lightitalic Bookman-Demi bookman/demi Bookman-DemiItalic bookman/demiitalic Using the file myprinter/map (in the default host font directory) as the map table, you could download fonts by issuing the following command: example% download -m myprinter/map file EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. non-zero An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWpsf | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dpost(1), postdaisy(1), postdmd(1), postio(1), postmd(1), postprint(1), posttek(1), attributes(5) NOTES
The download program should be part of a more general program. download does not look for %%PageFonts: comments and there is no way to force multiple downloads of a particular font. Using full pathnames in either map tables or the names of map tables is not recommended. SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 1996 download(1)
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