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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fast Fonts won't change fonts as documented
Message-ID: <839@applix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 23:01:34 GMT
References: <10523@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <10523@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>
>The FastFonts program is supposed to be able to change the default
>topaz 8 font with the font of your choice. I tried it with the "pearl"
>font, and when that didn't work I tried it with topaz. It consistently
>said "font not found". I tried every permutation of "topaz", "topaz 8",
>"topaz.font", changing directories to fonts, etc.

I had this problem.  When I tried "FF -8 pearl.font" from a virgin
CLI (not the Dillon/Drew shell I _always_ use) I had no problem.  Are
you using such a shell??

The shell program hands the command line to FF in a way that is
different from what FF expects (it adds a <CR> to the command line).

-scott