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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: guru when calling OpenDiskFont
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Date: 12 Sep 89 17:12:44 GMT
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In article <1319@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> jack@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (The Prism) writes:
>When I call OpenDiskFont to load a font, I get a guru.

>I have successfully opened the diskfont.library prior to my call to
>OpenDiskFont, and I have a valid TextAttr structure, the pointer to which
>is passed to OpenDiskFont.  Below is my code:

>struct Library *DiskFontBase
		^^^- Bug

I've flame Commodore a bit about this on BIX, you'll probably want to
now as well. Your bug is that the global that OpenDiskFont() is expecting
the library base to be in is "DiskfontBase" and *NOT* "DiskFontBase" (note
the lower case 'f' in 'font'). The more things like this happen, the more
I think there must be a better way for shared libraries to work than with
"magic" global variables.


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