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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: --Bug report--
Message-ID: <397@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 14:31:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.397
Posted: Thu Jun 12 14:31:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jun-86 05:41:36 EDT
References: <8606101837.AA15535@pavepaws>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8606101837.AA15535@pavepaws> dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>Description:
>(2)
>       Saving fonts always seems to work, but something in FontEd seems
>       to permanently screw the machine.  After a while, when you try to
>       load a font you've just saved (even by getting out of FontEd and
>       re-executing FontEd and THEN reloading the font), it comes up
>       a previous version of the font???!!?  Rebooting the machine via
>       ctl-A-A and re-executing FontEd and THEN reloading the font seems
>       to work ok.
>
>Repeat-By:
>       In above description.  Specifically for #2:
>
>       Get a font (topaz 8), resized to 7x7. cleared it, created a '!',
>       saved it.  Added stuff alltheway up to 'K', saved it.  Reloaded
>       the font (didn't work... got just the '!').  Rebooted the machine
>       and reloaded the font (did work).
>
>Possible_Cause:
>       Something in FontEd is mashing memory, I would guess.
>

I seem to recall talking with the author about this, and he said if you
save a font with the same name as it was loaded, you're going to get the
old one, because it's still loaded into the machine.

Which leads me to my next point.  Yes, I believe fonts do stick around
until no-one is using them and Exec needs the memory.

Fix to above "bug" - save the modified font under a different name than
you loaded it with.

        Regards,
                Paul Higginbottom

Note: please don't shoot me, I haven't verified the above.

Disclaimer: I might not know what I'm talking about, so only I'm responsible
        for this!