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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: newcon, setfont questions
Message-ID: <6602@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 17:46:09 GMT
References: <98492@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <98492@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) says:
> Summary: Keep for your notes file

> In article <2111@pur-phy>, (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes:
>> I use courier 13 (font) all the time ... Xoper ... shows the
>> courier font ... listed THREE times...

> In article <6561@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) remarks:
> 	[Essentially that he uses fonts correctly in SetFont 2.5 so
> 	 that shouldn't be the cause. ]

> Many programs simply call OpenDiskFont() first which does not check the
> in memory font lists and instead does just what it's name implies, opens
> the font from disk. 

Whoops!  When I went to SetFont V2.5, I managed to reverse the opening
order.  So SetFont may actually account for one additional copy of a RAM
font each time it's run, it would appear.  By the time I finish typing
this, V2.6 could have finished compiling.  I can't account for the other
copies, I don't believe, but you'll certainly want the new version.  I
don't know how fast amiga.binaries is working these days -- anyone who
wants this new one send me mail and I'll mail you out one directly until
the posting comes through.

> --Chuck McManis
> "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"

Thanks for making me look, Chuck.


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