Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!yale!cmcl2!panix!alexis From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: what's special about monaco 9 Message-ID: <1990Oct2.064716.6041@panix.uucp> Date: 2 Oct 90 06:47:16 GMT References: Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 27 In article ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael A. Libes) writes: >>Is 9pt Monaco treated special? Can this special treatment be overcome? > >You're gonna need a ROM burner to overcome this problem. Seems when >Apple saw all the extra room in the 256K (or was it the 128K) ROMs, they >decided to stick the standard fonts, Chicago 12, Geneva and Monoco 9 >along with the arrow cursor, into the ROMs. The copies in the System >file are for backward compatibility with your every-day 128K Mac (RAM, >not ROM). Not at all. How do you think Apple patches the ROMs? Among other ways, with the Rov# resources. Stick one in your system file, and it'll point to a resource which the Mac should take from the System File instead of ROM. I don't remeber the format offhand but if you ask ResEdit to make you one the format should be pretty clear. The only tricky part is that there's a "magic" number for each variant of mac. They're documented (where?), but I don't remember them offhand. You could always make one Rov# for each magic number, just to be safe. You can find a list of those numbers by looking at all the numbers of the various PTCH resources, one PTCH per Mac. --- Alexis Rosen {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis alexis@panix.uucp