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From: dave@tygra.Michigan.COM (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Just for kicks
Message-ID: <1991May27.043317.5748@tygra.Michigan.COM>
Date: 27 May 91 04:33:17 GMT
References: <4cBo0AK00Vpg06BUV4@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System, Detroit, MI
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In article <4cBo0AK00Vpg06BUV4@andrew.cmu.edu> mg2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin G. Greenberg) writes:
>Has anyone else seen/experienced this problem?
>
>    SwapVectors;
>    Exec (GetEnv ('COMSPEC'), '/C COPY FONT1.FOO PRN > NUL')
>    SwapVectors;
>
>[works part of the time]
>
>We have yet to hear from anyone a satifactory explanation.
>Can any of you make any suggestions?
>
>                                     MGG

Whether or not this code will succeed depends on the amount of free memory.
Are you checking the DosErrorCode when you return?  Perhaps some of the
users are suffering from RAM-cram and DOS can't load another copy of
COMMAND.COM.  You could easily build the copy functionality into your
application, just Use Printer and open the font file as a file of char
and read through it, Write (lst,...) the whole thing.

If memory isn't your problem then I must admit, I'm without a clue.
--
David Conrad
dave@michigan.com
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