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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
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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
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