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From: ulfis@nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: LaserWriter II fonts -- HELP
Summary: LaserWriter II connected to a hard disk
Keywords: PostScript, LaserWriter, Hard disk
Message-ID: <784@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 2 Feb 89 00:22:38 GMT
References: <771@draken.nada.kth.se> <2198@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: ulfis@nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2198@scolex.sco.COM> allanh@sco.COM (Allan J. Heim) writes:
>Re: Anders Ulfheden's PostScript program that prints the fonts available
>    on a printer
>
>It's a very nice program, but will it find fonts on a hard disk, like on
>a Varityper VT-600 or Agfa/Compugraphic CG-400PS?  I tried running an
>older version on a VT-600, and it only found ten fonts--not counting the
>tens of fonts on the hard disk.

No, I don't think the fonts on a hard disk will be found.
I'm not familiar with any LaserWriter connected to a harddisk and I haven't
yet seen any program including routines for a harddisk-IO. I'm sure that
the PostScript file-operators can manage to handle this.
One problem is to decide whether a harddisk is connected or not to the
LaserWriter, and then get the file-ID (or something) for reading/writing.

>I believe the new book "Real-World PostScript" mentions an alternative
>means of searching for fonts.  It involves looking for filesystems as
>well as <the place fonts are usually stored>.

How is the disks formatted? Do you for example format them by a Mac
and then just connect?
Can the harddisk be considered as a huge RAM for the LaserWriter?
If not, what is the "format" of the disk-files and what PostScript
routines searches the disk for certain files?

If anyone has got the "Real-World PostScript"-book, can you please
give an example of the stuff mentioned above?
Where can I get the book "Real-World PostScript"? Publisher?

Tnx!
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