Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!acs From: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Font strangeness (was: Re: Did I find a bug ?) Keywords: Fonts Message-ID: <95iY799fkM1010Oj7YE@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 9 Jul 88 00:59:38 GMT References: <4754@gryphon.CTS.COM> <59047@sun.uucp> <95mqj0e0ec1010FeLr6@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Reply-To: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 In article <95mqj0e0ec1010FeLr6@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >Here's a different problem that I run into WRT fonts ... anyone have any >ideas ...? > >Go into fonts: and edit my favorite font (Paula) with Fed (Paula is a modified >Pearl, which is a modified Topaz). > >Now bring up vt100 v2.8, which allows you to specify the font you want to use. >Vt100 aborts, with a message to the effect "can't find font paula". > >Vt100 *had* been up before the Fed editing session, and was using "paula" just >fine. Now, it can't find paula ... not even the old version. A reboot clears >the problem, and vt100 happily finds paula once again. > >So ... does Fed expunge the old version from memory, and if so, why is it that >vt100 can't load a copy of the new version out of the fonts: directory? Well, VT100R2.8 doesn't OpenDiskFont() so it will only find and use fonts that are currently in memory. That's fixed in 2.9...I don't remember about the 2.8A (i.e. 2.8 patch) release. >/kim >UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com > or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim -- Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]