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From: dave@jplopto.uucp (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Icon files
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Date: 29 Sep 88 20:24:30 GMT
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>(Mail to Dave Hayes has been bouncing...)
This is not good. How the heck do we remedy this? (Any UNIX guru's
out there?) I'll try to mail some information to you, after I post 
this message. 

>I take it you're trying to load a font file, and the DM error
>crops up right after the load or possibly on the first use of
>a character from the font.  Reading between the lines of your posting,
>it looks like you might be loading an icon font.  I suspect the font file 
>is corrupted.  As to how it got that way....

Yes. I am loading a icon font file. These files (as I have found from
hacking) typically get corrupted if there's too many icons defined inside 
them.

>Could you send more information (such as the font file, your SR,
>your node type, what you're trying to do)?  Would you be willing to 
>file an Apollo Problem Report (APR)? 

If I can do this via USENET, yes.

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