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From: tdrga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Todd Drga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Using Mac fonts
Summary: Ok - I give up
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Date: 21 May 91 06:03:59 GMT
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In article <301@daily-planet.concordia.ca> seldin@antares.concordia.ca ( JONATHAN SELDIN ) writes:
>
>The documentation with FONTZ! gives all the necessary information
>about this.  Perhaps the most important thing to know before
>starting is that the font files downloaded from Macintosh archive
>sites or BBS's must be separated into files each of which
>contains one size and style of one font.... 

 [description of lots of frightening (to me) stuff deleted]

>-- 
>Jonathan P. Seldin
>Department of Mathematics                 seldin@alcor.concordia.ca
>Concordia University, Montreal		   seldin@vax2.concordia.ca

Well, after reading all of that, I have decided to give up on converting mac
fonts.  I don't have and there is no way I can afford Spectre, so that blows
the whole thing out of reach.

I did find source for the unbinhex and unstuffit programs at 
sumex.stanford.edu (thanks to the person who suggested it) along with some
other mac conversion programs.

The good thing to come out of my abortive attempt is that I compiled my
first programs on the Sparc here at school.  (this is coming from an  
dictionary-definition end user, so its a big deal to me)

Thanks to everyone who helped me out.  Maybe someday I'll be able to afford
Spectre.  (hah, right!)

Todd

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