Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Finding out how much font memory my 9700 has Message-ID: <1669@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 00:47:58 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1669 Posted: Sat Sep 22 00:47:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 08:04:16 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 33 From: Alan Crosswell Does anybody know if it is possible to find out how much font memory a 9700 has? Is it possible to have an incorrect sysgen that will make the machine think it has less or does it figure out how much font memory it has dynamically? I ask this because I tried running a job that combined scribe output and a form overlay. The overlay used fonts PR211E, PR111E, UN108E, a 68K logo, and the special forms fonts that always gets loaded (according to my understanding of the manual). Adding up the numbers came to somewhere under 256K, so no fragmentation problem even. The scribe file uses a DJDE to request a PDE which contains several fonts and the data contains a fontindex requesting font #1 (FFMT10) and then magic codes in each record to request font #6 (UN108E). Our machine supposedly has 1024 Kbits of font memory. If I believe the manual when it says that only needed fonts are loaded during page setup, then the most I can be using is two 256K segments of font memory. I get a font memory exceeded message after first getting a bunch of messages about reorganing font memory (sorry, I forget the message number). This indicates to me that my machine only has 256K font memory. Am I missing something? Does the fact that my form overlay and the dynamic PDE both ask for one or more of the same fonts have anything to do with it (does it not know that UN108E was already loaded once)? Thanks in advance. /a PS: Scribe is pretty dumb about having a fontindex of 1 and then immediately using magic codes to load font 6. Is the machine as dumb as scribe? Does it load font 1 even though it's never used? I wouldn't blame it if it did. -------