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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: .font files
Summary: Some programs have a limit of 128 fonts.
Keywords: font .font files
Message-ID: <1290@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:42:19 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.050607.3689@isis.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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I ran into another problem concerning too many fonts on the disk.  Several
fonts that I had just added did not show up.  I tried DeluxePaint-III,
FontWorks, ProWrite, and WB2.0:Prefs/Fonts.  Running FixFonts didn't help.
Finally I did "list >prt:" and noticed that all the missing fonts were at
the end of the listing.  There were more than 128 *.font files (and the same
number of directories).  It looks like several different font requesters
give up after the 256th file in the FONTS: directory.

After moving the cmr* fonts to another directory, I now have only 119
*.font files and 120 directories.  Now all the fonts are usable.
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