MAXG@SUVM.BITNET ("Gerry Greenberg: 315-443-5378") (09/21/89)
Well, I've finally got a question about running the ST in ST mode...I seem always to be trying to find out about how things run on Spectre. Anyway, here is the situation I'm in...and I'm afraid I don't know too much about it because GDOS may be involved (and I've never tried to figure out what it is, what it does, etc.) I've got an MS-DOS program that creates data files that contain characters represented by ascii postitions higher than 128. I was wondering if there is any font editor out there (of course, pd would be best ;-) that allows you to change these characters in the ST. When I first started to try to do this, I found an old program (actually, it is a desk accessory) by Charles Johnson (I believe) that allows you to load fonts in the place of the system font. When I tried this with the one font that I had for this accessory (olde.fnt or something like that), it seemed to affect only the ascii characters that were the ones lower than 128. First I tried to simply view the files with the Show command from the desktop. Only the less-than-128 ascii characters were affected. Then I tried to run the data file through 1st word...again, only the non-hebrew characters were affected. Of course, I guess this might be the result if the old.fnt only had characters created for the regular characters, and did nothing with hebrew character spots. Anyway, I was wondering if there is a font editor out there that can affect the above 128 characters, and if there is anyway to access those new characters. I would think that WordUp and Fontz might be able to do the trick, but I have no idea in reality. In addition, is GDOS necessary to do this, because if it is, I don't have it. As usual, thanks in advance for any help/ideas/advice. Please email responses to me directly or post to the net. ----Gerry maxg@suvm (bitnet) ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (internet) [previously less reliable than the bitnet address, but perhaps alright now]