aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) (02/28/91)
I recently got my cube + upgrade (yay!) and I have a few questions that I
was wondering if anyone out there could help me with.
First of all, when you get your upgrade (I got mine already, pre installed),
are you supposed to get an optical with system 2.0 on it? I had 2.0
preinstalled on the hard disk, and I have used an optical of my own to back
it up, one which would be better used on something else. My salesman denies
that I'm supposed to get an optical, but I don't really believe him. Do you
have to pay extra for the disk?
Secondly, I have some public domain fonts that were converted from Mac fonts
and given to me by a very helpful fellow at my local PC support center on
campus. I installed them using the makefile included with them, and put them
into /LocalLibrary/Fonts. I could then use them (inconsistently) as root,
but not when I logged on as myself. Although they appeared in the font
panel, when I tried to use one, it said "font unavailable". I copied the
whole thing into my home directory under ~/Library/Fonts and they work fine,
but I would also like them to work for the other users without every one of
them having a separate copy! Symbolic links might work, but I would rather
get them working from /LocalLibrary. Any ideas?
Thanks to all.
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Anthony Berno (aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca)
The Questor Project: Free Public Access to Usenet & Internet in
Vancouver, BC, Canada, at +1 604 681-0670lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) (03/01/91)
In article <JXD3X1w164w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: > My salesman denies > that I'm supposed to get an optical, but I don't really believe him. Do you > have to pay extra for the disk? > Believe him. Get a blank OD and run BuildDisk immediately, if not sooner. Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)
lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) (03/02/91)
aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: > I recently got my cube + upgrade (yay!) and I have a few questions that I > was wondering if anyone out there could help me with. > > First of all, when you get your upgrade (I got mine already, pre installed), > are you supposed to get an optical with system 2.0 on it? I had 2.0 > preinstalled on the hard disk, and I have used an optical of my own to back > it up, one which would be better used on something else. My salesman denies > that I'm supposed to get an optical, but I don't really believe him. Do you > have to pay extra for the disk? > > Secondly, I have some public domain fonts that were converted from Mac fonts > and given to me by a very helpful fellow at my local PC support center on > campus. I installed them using the makefile included with them, and put them > into /LocalLibrary/Fonts. I could then use them (inconsistently) as root, > but not when I logged on as myself. Although they appeared in the font > panel, when I tried to use one, it said "font unavailable". I copied the > whole thing into my home directory under ~/Library/Fonts and they work fine, > but I would also like them to work for the other users without every one of > them having a separate copy! Symbolic links might work, but I would rather > get them working from /LocalLibrary. Any ideas? 2.0 Software comes pre-installed on your hard disk. If you are upgrading your old cube from 1.0 to 2.0 then you get 2.0 on optical. Try setting protection on your fonts, so that the /LocalLibrary/Fonts directories have ( a+rx ) permissions, and the files in those directories have ( a+rx ) permissions. > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca | c/o TRIUMF Operations Group * * larry@triumfcl.bitnet | University of British Columbia * * Compuserve: 70441,1776 | 4004 Wesbrook Mall * * Phone: +1 604 275-5902 | Vancouver, British Columbia * * FAX: +1 604 275-4184 | Canada V6T 2A3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *