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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
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Subject: Re: Programming environments
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Date: 21 Feb 91 19:33:36 GMT
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From article <4352@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>, by gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software):
> On yet another environment front, is there something that will "modify"
> GEM or otherwise provide a default font other than the standard?  I'd
> like Emacs 3.10, GEM text windows (read Gulam), etc to have a nice, read-
> able, eye saving font.  The editor for Turbo-C (and in general) has many
> font's that it uses and while not perfect on a color monitor - they are
> quite pleasing.
> 
> The only things I can think of is perhaps G*Dos (but I'm a new guy and
> wouldn't know about this yet).
> 
> Having written my first TOS/MIDI program, I got burned in a big way (okay,
> it was only 2/3 of an hour) by trying to find out why fopen(..., "r") wouldn't
> read my data files (unsigned ascii).  Seems that fopen(..., "rb") is the
> answer (for TC).  Live and learn (it ain't unix). :-).
> 
> Joe
> -=-

Two answers:

Cheap:

There's a free or shareware mono font substituter - I have it but have
forgotten the name.  It had only 1 (pleasing) font to load in place of
the standard one.  It uses fonts with the .fed extension.  Somebody
update this info please.

Expensive:

Get the do it all desk accessory Harlekin (2 versions, one for med rez
and one for high rez - get what you need).  One of it's functions is
to replace the regular fonts with other monospaced fonts.  NeoDesk 3.0
also supplies a program to substitute monospaced fonts - but it has
been critisized as slow in this forum.

Bob Pegram

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