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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: AARRGGG.. New Font/Da Mover
Message-ID: <66432@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 12:29:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.66432
Posted: Wed May 29 12:29:50 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 00:56:57 EDT
References: <1751@cornell.UUCP> <5504@Shasta.ARPA>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
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Organization: Macintosh Division, Apple Computer
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Summary: 

In article <5504@Shasta.ARPA> gus@Shasta.ARPA writes:
>
>As I understand, there may be bugs in the ROM font manager that keep
>fonts with negative resource ID's  from working correctly.
>

I don't think there is any problems with the font manager handling
negative resource IDs.  (MacTerminal, for example, has a private font with
a negative resource ID.)

I talked to the person who did the Font/DA Mover, and the real answer is
that he was trying to handle owned resources.  Owned resources are supposed
to have negative resource IDs.  Unfortunately, he failed to heed the fine
print in Inside Macintosh which says that fonts (as well as some other
resource types) can't be owned resources and must be special cased.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein
Apple Computer

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