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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fonts and FullWrite
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Date: 1 Aug 88 16:36:12 GMT
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>Apparently, this doesn't happen with the System 5.0 software, so the source
>to blame is indefinite.  I'm certainly not going to get into finger-pointing
>over it....

It was an oopsie in the A-T QA department. They got bit by something that
was warned of in a tech note a while back, but which wasn't functional until
System 6.0. 

>I had heard rumors that Ashton-Tate was going to mail out dictionaries and
>glossaries to their FullWrite customers, assuming that they were too
>technically limited to do the bit-switching themselves (probably justified
>in most cases).  Never saw such a disk, though, so I guess it was just a
>rumor... 

No, it's not a rumor. Call up A-T Tech support, and they'll send you a new
disk. This is primarily for the 'Resedit? What's that?' audience. It's a lot
easier, faster, and cheaper to just turn off the bundle bits.


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Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

I don't work for no 'Toon!