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From: saa33413@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("Scott A. Alfter")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Font Suitcase Files
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Date: 24 Oct 89 03:20:58 GMT
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I've transferred lots of Macintosh font suitcase files onto ProDOS disks.
I hope to break these suitcases down into their constituent font files so
I can use the fonts on my IIe with TimeOut SuperFonts and 816/Paint.

Does anyone out there know anything about suitcase files?  Articles in
A2-Central and Call-A.P.P.L.E. describe the format of the fonts themselves.
However, no Apple II publication in its right mind would publish the format
of a Macintosh file.  I can recognize a font in a suitcase file, but I 
need to know what headers the suitcase files themselves use.  I hope to
write a program, running under ProDOS 8, that will automatically (or at
least, semiautomatically) sift out fonts.

Yours truly,
Scott Alfter
Usenet:  alftersoft@uiuc.edu
U.S. Mail:  Scott Alfter
            Alftersoft
            URH, 716 Oglesby Hall
            1001 W. College Ct.
            Urbana, IL  61801
            USA

Mailed 23 Oct 89 @ 2221 hrs.