ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) (06/01/91)
Over the past 2 days I've had lots of problems - *really* nasty Folders from Hell etc. - which I think are somehow related to opening several files with Word from the Finder at once. The symptoms and circumstances are quite confusing, so I won't attempt to describe them in detail. Worse, it may have been caused by a WDEF virus which I caught during the 2 hours or so when I had no protection running (Murphy's Law). Still, I wonder: has anyone had problems after opening multiple files (5 or so) in Word 4.00A under System 7? About the same time I saw another strangeness: after running Eudora (Steve Dorner's mail client) in the Comm. Toolbox mode, the dialogs etc. were being shown/refreshed in a slow-motion mode - as if they were fed to the screen at 1200 baud... Moreover, Chicago changed to a weird version, with slashed zeroes! Can anyone shed some light on this? -- Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (06/03/91)
In article <1991Jun01.051154.4894@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes: > >About the same time I saw another strangeness: after running Eudora (Steve >Dorner's mail client) in the Comm. Toolbox mode, the dialogs etc. were >being shown/refreshed in a slow-motion mode - as if they were fed to the >screen at 1200 baud... Moreover, Chicago changed to a weird version, with >slashed zeroes! Can anyone shed some light on this? The TrueType chicago has slashed zeroes. There is a setting in the font manager that will make outline fonts be used whenever possible. TrueType fonts are slower than bitmapped fonts. This only explains WHAT happened, not WHY. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.