NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu (03/08/91)
Hi outthere, I recently bought a TrumpCard harddrive (Q40) and now I had the following problem: FixFonts does absolutely nothing when booting from the Harddrive! So I made a copy of the Mountlist, put it on an empty disk, and booted from an floppy, without startup-sequence. then a ASSIGN DEVS: EMPTY:DEVS and MOUNT DH0: and ASSIGN FONTS: DH0:FONTS and DH0:system/fixfonts and it works!!! SO i tried booting from the harddrive without startup-sequence, and did DH0:system/fixfonts and it doesn't work!!!! How is that possible???? Is it a bug???? Should I report this??? BTW my NOTEPAD works fine with over 30 fonts in my FONTS: now! But I have to boot from a floppy to do fixfonts!!! Nils Gokemeijer NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.bitnet
phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) (03/11/91)
NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu writes: >FixFonts does absolutely nothing when booting from the Harddrive! >So I made a copy of the Mountlist, put it on an empty disk, and booted >from an floppy, without startup-sequence. >and DH0:system/fixfonts and it works!!! >SO i tried booting from the harddrive without startup-sequence, >and did DH0:system/fixfonts and it doesn't work!!!! >How is that possible???? Is it a bug???? >Should I report this??? I don't know exactly what the differences are, but I did discover the following - FixFonts does *nothing* if booted from KS1.2. I guess that they check the version of the DiskFontLibrary and if it is not high enough, the program exits without complaining. If has to be run from KS1.3. I hope this helps a bit. If not try and limit the causes more and then ask one of the guys from C=. Just my $0.02 worth, Phil. -- o| /// Phil Kernick EMail: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au |o | /// Departmental Engineer Phone: +618 228 5914 | o| \\\/// Dept. of Psychology Fax: +618 224 0464 |o | \/// University of Adelaide Mail: GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001 |
David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) (03/17/91)
This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but: just what does FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it? - Dave -- David Plummer - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 UUCP: ...!herald!weyr!70!David.Plummer Domain: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG Standard Disclaimers Apply...
eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton) (03/18/91)
In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes: >This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but: just what does >FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it? Not a silly question at all. FixFonts simply updates the font contents files in FONTS: (all the *.font files). It scans the directories in FONTS: and then rebuilds the .font files based on what it finds. In general, you should run FixFonts if you suspect that one or more of your .font files have become corrupt. It's also not a bad idea to run it after installing new fonts into your system. -- Eric Cotton Commodore-Amiga (215) 431-9100 1200 Wilson Drive {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!eric West Chester, PA 19380 "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."
UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) (03/19/91)
In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>, David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) says: > >This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but: just what does >FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it? For font foobar there is a foobar.font file, and a directory called foobar that contains a separate file for each available size of foobar, perhaps 8, 9 11, 20, and 24, say. The foobar.font file contains info about what is the foobar directory. So, what do you think might happen if you add a foobar size 18 font file, and delete the size 20? In fact, foobar.font is now obsolete. FixFonts looks through each subdirectory in fonts:, and creates a correct .font file for it. I think... lee > >- Dave > > > >-- >David Plummer - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 >UUCP: ...!herald!weyr!70!David.Plummer >Domain: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG >Standard Disclaimers Apply...
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (03/19/91)
In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes: >This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but: just what does >FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it? For every font, you have a "name.font" file in the fonts: dir plus a "name" dir in fonts: and in that dir you find the different font sizes as numbered files. Now the "name.font" file is sort of a contents file for that very font. If you add a new size by copying an additional file into the "name" dir, then the file "name.font" should know about that change, and this is what FixFonts does for you. It scans through the available font sizes and updates the contents files accordingly. It is a good idea to run FixFonts whenever you copied some fonts files into your fonts: directory. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk