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From: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: ST FONTS and FONTLOADER - PART I
Message-ID: <149@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 12:13:55 EST
Article-I.D.: molihp.149
Posted: Tue Apr  1 12:13:55 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Apr-86 02:47:57 EST
References: <54600010@iuvax.UUCP> <1988@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Organization: Moli Energy, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
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Summary: 

In article <1988@brl-smoke.ARPA> Geoffrey Sauerborn writes:
>	I have followed the instuctions to the letter. There is no such
>thing as "ST FONT LOADER" under the desk menu after rebooting.
>I still do not get "ST FONT LOADER" under the desk menu
>after rebooting. Has anyone got it to work?

<>

  It worked fine for me.  But my TOS.IMG will not read desk  accessories
unless they are named 'DESKn.ACC', so I had to rename them.  With TOS in
ROM, this renaming is not necessary, and more  descriptive  names can be
used.

  BTW, the font  loader  seems to eat a large  amount of memory for some
reason when it is installed  upon boot-up, and can only be used a finite
number of times before some limited  resource is used up.  Anybody  else
noticed  this?  Could this  program be smarter in its use of  resources?
And has anybody got a desk accessory  which checks the memory usage?  My
check  so far has been the size of chunk  read  during a  diskcopy.  The
Intersect  ramdisk tells you, but it cannot  allocate a ramdisk with TOS
in ROM,  so it is a  little  big  just  to spy on the  size.  Maybe  the
Intersect ramdisk could be smarter, too.

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