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From: if30@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7
Message-ID: <1991May25.104151.47057@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 10:35:51 GMT
References: <1991May21.035502.10050@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Organization: University of North Texas
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> 
> Oh, Apple keeps saying the Font/DA Mover is obsolete now...but just what
> trick do ya use otherwise to get fonts and DAs *back* into suitcases...
> ohhhhhh. :)
> 

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> -- 
> Jason Gross     Comp Sci Ugrad     University of Miami     Class of '91 (?)
> ===========================================================================
> Hey, wanna save the world? | Got sumtin' to say?        gross@umiami.bitnet
> Nuke a Godless, Communist, | Pick and choose!     gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu  
> gay whale for Christ.      |                      gross@miavax.ir.miami.edu
>               - Anonymous  |                     jgross@umbio.med.miami.edu
> ===========================================================================
>                The University of Miami has a lovely fountain. 

I'd like to know the answer to this one, too. I tried installing S7 on a MacII
at school yesterday, and (after I moved to one without an ethernet card) all
seemed to go well. But the old system file had about a gillion fonts in it
that I had not removed prior to installation of S7. I quickly learned that the
old fonts had been moved to the new system file yielding a wopping 3.9 meg
file. Well, I says, we better get rid of those fonts. Font/DA mover is
obsolete, and when I double clicked on the system file, S7 tried to open it
but finally gave up and told me the system file was damaged! I had seen
no signs of damage up to that point. 
Well, I decided, I'll reinstall the old system, remove the unwanted fonts the
old fashioned way and reinstall S7. So I did and the result was a svelt 2.6
meg system file(I didn't remove all of the old fonts). I tried again to get
old fonts out and got the same 'file is damaged' message. I tried to put 
some new fonts in and got the 'file is damaged' message. Have I got a corrupt
system file, or am I going about things the wrong way? Are you supposed to
be able to open the system file and drag things out? If my file is not corrupt
why was I unable to add fonts to it? Is Font/DA mover 4.1 of no use in S7?
I would like to try S7 more at school before I install it at home, but this
first effort was a little dissapointing. Nice interface, though.
BW
Bill Wright
Univ.of North Texas