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From: eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FIXFONTS does weird!!??
Message-ID: <19937@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 14:17:39 GMT
References: <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
>This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but:  just what does
>FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it?

Not a silly question at all.  FixFonts simply updates the font contents files
in FONTS: (all the *.font files).  It scans the directories in FONTS: and
then rebuilds the .font files based on what it finds.  In general, you should
run FixFonts if you suspect that one or more of your .font files have become
corrupt.  It's also not a bad idea to run it after installing new fonts
into your system.
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Eric Cotton
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