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From: mitsu@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: --Bug report--
Message-ID: <1288@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 22:42:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 16 22:42:24 1986
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Reply-To: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
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In re: disk fonts not being removed after a CloseFont()

	Disk fonts have never been removed after a CloseFont()
(see Best of BIX, sometime around April or May 1986 BYTE).  They
are supposed to hang around in the system in case another application
wants them, UNLESS a memory allocation is done, in which case the
fonts are closed and cleaned out automatically if the allocation
needs to use the font memory.  Unfortunately, there is a bug in
1.1 that causes this procedure to fail, and it would be nice if
someone tested 1.2 to determine whether this bug remains.  For
a description of the bug, please refer to the Best of BIX in BYTE
(same issue, sorry I don't have it with me so I can't tell you
the exact date---it was the first issue that carried Amiga BIX
conference notes.)  The bug essentially consists of AllocMem()
clearing out the font, but the font not being removed from the
list of fonts available in RAM, so that if another application opened
that font, it would think it is still in RAM (even though it has
been cleared out by AllocMem()) and the system would do something
nasty and unpleasant.
			-Mitsu (mitsu@well.UUCP)
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