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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: If you ever use Font/DA Juggler, REMEMBER THIS!
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Date: 3 Apr 88 04:38:12 GMT
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Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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If you have used Font/DA Juggler at some time, perhaps I can recount a tale
of woe so that you will know the Nasty Signs when they occur:

I own both Suitcase 1.21 and Font/DA Juggler+.  I stopped using Font/DA
Juggler+ this week, because a) it won't work with FullWrite Professional
(not Alsoft's fault, Ann Arbor/Ashton Tate's), b) I was getting some
weird problems with DAs (e.g., pull down Control Panel in MultiFinder, would
whir a bit and then beep, giving me nothing.  After that, no DAs would pop
up.  Why?  Got me...), and c) I can't get DA's to appear in an application's
menubar (instead of the DA handler's menu bar) by holding down the Option
key when selecting the DA.

Anyway, I slipped Font/DA Juggler out of the System Folder and put Suitcase
in.  Fine.  Reboot, start HyperCard up.  Suddenly, the screen begins to
fizzle at intervals, along with the internal floppy drive whirring during
those same intervals.  What's going on?  Possession?  Virus?  Ack ack!

Using the famed "swap out cdevs and inits" method, I determine (after 1/2
hour) that when Suitcase is removed, everything works fine (except, I
haven't got any fonts).  OK, I figure one of my Font files got trashed and I
need to weed them out.  Spend 2 hours moving fonts around.  Reading the
Palatino font file cause Font/DA Mover to die.  Aha!  That must be the
problem.  Put new Palatino into LaserFonts Font file.  Reboot.  Start
Hypercard.  Whirr. Fizzle.  Whirr.  Fizzle.

By now, I'm sure of only one thing: if this is a virus, I'm going to kill
someone.  I put Font/DA Juggler Plus into the system and take out Suitcase.
Hey, everything works fine now!  Let me take a look at the Font/DA Juggler
Plus contol panel...

OOPS.

*Now* I remember... I used the "compress font" option under Font/DA Juggler
Plus.... F/DA Juggler knows how to deal with compressed fonts (it's their
feature, so they better!), Suitcase doesn't.  I forgot to de-compress them
before using them with Suitcase.

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Morals of the story:

1)  It almost certainly ain't a virus.

2)  If your machine is going "whirr-fizz-whirr-fizz", you now have a
    starting point.

                         The game of life is a game of boomerangs.  Our
                         thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or
                         later with astounding accuracy.

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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