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Subject: RE: icon on a PC
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Date: 16 Mar 90 22:41:00 GMT
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> 1) Is there a PC version of icon which creates an executable file
>    instead of having to run the ICONCX program every time?

No.

> 2) Text files which I want to process using icon involve home-made
>    fonts created in Pascal. What is the possibility of processing such
>    fonts in icon?

That's up to you to implement but Icon should be up to it.

> 3) I keep getting an error message 'inadequate space in block region'.
>    Is there an environment variable that can be set to stop this? This 
>    happens with long files.

The third one I'm familiar with on a number of systems.  Define HEAPSIZE to
be larger than the default for your system to get rid of that problem.  The
default on the system I use (3B2) is 51,200 so I use 100,000 when I start
to get the block region warning.

Jerry Nowlin