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 Lines: 28 >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 -- Joe Walters ihnp4!ihlpf!bird IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356