Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BRILLIG.UMD.EDU!don From: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: NeWS FontDirectory Message-ID: <8905202025.AA01601@brillig.umd.edu> Date: 20 May 89 20:26:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Date: 19 May 89 11:22:50 GMT From: mcvax!ukc!etive!lfcs!angus@uunet.uu.net (Angus Duggan) Does anyone know how to get NeWS1.1 to use more than ~100 fonts? [...] Thanks, Angus Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, | (C) AJCD 1989 University of Edinburgh, JCMB, | USENET: angus@lfcs.ed.ac.uk The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | JANET: angus@uk.ac.ed.lfcs Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. | OR: angus%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk You can enlarge the FontDirectory dictionary by using the undocmented 'extend' primative. It takes as arguments a new size and a dictionary; it increases the maximum size, and returns the same dictionary. The following should do what you want: 500 FontDirectory extend pop -Don