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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 02:12:12 +1030
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: K95G / Win98SE all non-space text appears as rectangles
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Arthur Marsh wrote:
> To partially answer my own question, by copying another machine's entire
> c:\windows\fonts directory to the local machine's newly created
> c:\windows\newfonts directory, then bringing the machine down to MS-DOS
> mode and doing
>
> cd \windows
> ren fonts oldfonts
> ren newfonts fonts
>
> and restarting, I now have K95G working again, with nearly 100
> candidates for corrupt font files in the oldfonts directory.
>
> The joys of MS-Windows...
>
> Arthur.
A commercial program called FontAgent can be run in free (demo) mode to
identify corrupt font files. In my case, some of the reportedly corrupt
font files did not cause the problem with K95G, but I assume that at
least one of the reportedly corrupt font files *did* cause the problems
with K95G.
Arthur.