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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem?
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Date: 28 Jun 89 11:29:58 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>> We have a Mac network here (using MacJANET) and one of our biggest
>> problems is having insufficient room on the boot disks we distribute
>> to put anything more than a small selection of fonts and DAs.
> 
> We have the same problem, our solution is to copy all the fonts and
> DAs we want people to be able to use into each application.  It seems
> to work well, although it probably increases network activity somewhat.

We've done that, of course, but find it a pain to maintain. It can really
mess things up as well if someone has the regular Times font installed
on their Mac at home and get the Adobe fonts we have installed in the
applications--there's no way to override an application's fonts. There
are rumours that MacJANET, the network software we use, will have a
Suitcase like feature built into it on the next release....

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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