Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: RE: Amusing dialog boxes, damaged fonts Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 16:15:59 GMT References: <13515.28538C9E@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu In article <13515.28538C9E@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Irv.Kanode@p3.f53.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Irv Kanode) writes: [someone else wrote:] > > Double-clicking the suitcase brings up the apropriate message, along the > > lines of "Couldn't open the suitcase because it is damaged." Much better. > > > > So, now the question is, what does it mean by damaged? How do we fix it? > > We'd really like to get those fonts outta there. > > > Are you using SuitCase or something similar? I have gotten the file > damaged message when the file in question is really OPEN or IN USE. > SuitCase may be using that font suitcase or something else may have > it open. You also get that message if the fonts in the file have been compressed by Suitcase II (really compressed by one of the programs that comes with Suitcase). Suitcase understands the font compression scheme, but the Finder does not. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA