Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: PRODOS TO DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <5088@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 88 12:04:17 GMT
References: <8806210759.aa03753@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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>TRANSFORMS has  never ported FONTRIX to PRODOS? It's one of the few
>DOS 3.3 programs that I still use. The time spent accessing the
>disk drive with this program is maddening.

When I called up Data Transforms to order Printrix I talked to
someone who seemed to be the owner. I asked, "why hasn't Fontrix been
ported to ProDOS?"  He said, "they had started the conversion,
unfortunately, things had been a little slow so thay had been
forced to lay the programmer of temporarlly. With luck it will be
out this summer." Right. Just like Softronics was going to have a
IIgs version of Softerm out last year. (I also pointed out that the
interface to Fontrix is not graphical and that seems real strange
for a graphical program.)

As you point out, working with Fontrix from a 5.25" disk is like
kicking a dead whale down the beach. There is a solution, it is
called the Apple Fontrix club. They have a number of mods and
add-on's for Fontrix that do make it tolorable. In addition, you
can modify the Applesoft program to automatically load in a
Graffile from drive 2 when you boot. (Much of the above assumes that
you have an extended memory card such as Applied Engineering or a
IIgs).

				Joe Walters ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
				IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356
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				Joe Walters ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
				IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356