Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!LAWRENCE!HIRBY_S From: HIRBY_S%AMOS@LAWRENCE.BITNET (Steve Hirby) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga Subject: RE: An old trick... Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 16:37:00 GMT Sender: Info-Amiga List Reply-To: Info-Amiga List Lines: 18 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: ELLEN::IN%"I-AMIGA@UBVM.BITNET" >Stephan Vermulen (spelling?) sent me a little utility a long time ago (long >since lost) that allows the slightly more elegant solution of allowing >the foo.font files to point to the actual bitmaps (files like 8, 9, and 12 etc) >on different disks which is useful too. The program is called REN; available on Fish disks somewhere. I got an executable copy from PLINK's Amiga section; source code was in Transactor for the Amiga. Really a very simple program -- could be written in AmigaBASIC. Has the advantage (over the scheme suggested in this message) that you don't have to remember which of your disks named FONTS: contains the particular font you're looking for. Explicit disk volume label goes in the foo.font file -- which file must be on your Workbench disk (or partitition)., and the system requester will ask you for the disk by name. (Of course, then you must be sure not to relabel the disk containing the font bitmaps.) C-A has indicated that this scheme, which makes use of a unimplemented feature of .font file structures, will not be broken by future font versions. SH