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From: hsgj@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Blitzfonts woes?
Message-ID: <1021@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 23:48:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1021
Posted: Thu May 14 23:48:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:44:16 EDT
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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Keywords: Blitzfonts possible crash (?)


I just downloaded the "Blitzfonts" program that has been receiving
so much net attention lately, and had a few problems which I thought
I would describe here.

First:  My system has a lot of ''drivers'' running all the time,
namely VD0: DH0: (Mas-20) AUX: PIPE: and a 2-meg ram.  I also use
the Shell v2.04M.  I have been using this config for about 6 weeks
with absolutely no problems (well, just added AUX: but the rest of
the stuff has been running for a long time).  In fact, I was bragging to
folks about how easy it is to add new devices/''drivers'' to the
Amiga.

Well, with Blitzfonts running, I do see a nice text speedup of about
5 times.  But every once in a while for no reason at all the system
gurus with the standard error 3 and the address of the CLI.  This
is a really nasty error because IT CLEARS VD0: which (holding valuable
data) is really a pain.

I have experienced this failure running numerous things -- just the
shell, or the latest Hack103D or emacs.  On Emacs and the shell the
reset occurred (big news here->) when printing text...  On Hack,
though, it occurred after the Amiga was left idle for 2 hours.  I
pressed a key and BOOM.

I have removed Blitzfonts from my startup, and now I run the same
software and same config, with no problems.  So my guess is that
Blitzfonts is indeed the culprit, though of course with all these
''drivers'' it may be something else.

I really like the concept of Blitzfonts so I am in the process of
writing to the author to see if he has addressed this problem or
has an update.  I will post if I find out anything.

I just wanted to alert folks because of the severity of the possible
loss of VD0:.

-- Dan Green
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