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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FIXFONTS does weird!!??
Message-ID: <91077.152011UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 20:20:11 GMT
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In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>,
David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) says:
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>This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but:  just what does
>FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it?

For font foobar there is a foobar.font file, and a directory called foobar
that contains a separate file for each available size of foobar, perhaps
8, 9 11, 20, and 24, say.  The foobar.font file contains info about what is
the foobar directory.

So, what do you think might happen if you add a foobar size 18 font file, and
delete the size 20?  In fact, foobar.font is now obsolete.  FixFonts
looks through each subdirectory in fonts:, and creates a correct .font file
for it.

I think...

          lee
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