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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fonts and FullWrite
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Date: 1 Aug 88 02:09:06 GMT
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In article <7109@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> jjs@juggler.PRC.Unisys.COM (James Solderitsch) writes:
>Now for something (almost) completely different.
>
>I am running FullWrite under system 6.0 (multifinder), and when I save files and
>do get info from the Finder, the files are labeled as FullWrite dictionary
>(or FullWrite Glossary) files instead of standard FullWrite document files.
>Thus I can't double click on them.
>
>I also vaguely recall that such a problem might simply be that the
>FullWrite files don't all have their bundle bits properly set and that this
>problem is really due to faulty quality control at Ashton-Tate.

You're correct, at least in that you need to switch off the Bundle Bit on
the FullWrite dictionary and glossary with ResEdit, Disktop or some such
creature, and your problems should be fixed.

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....

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... 

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