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- • Greek3 outline font problem − I was very interested to read, in
- Archive 3.11, about solving the problem of the slowness of the Computer
- Concepts Greek3 font. The root of the problem was that the internal and
- external names should be the same, and the article suggests that you can
- simply rename the !Fonts.Greek3 directory to !Fonts.Greek, which is very
- quick and easy. However, if you do this then any existing !Draw files,
- etc containing the Greek3 font will not display with ordinary system
- font characters. It seems desirable to retain the external name Greek3.
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- I think that the best course of action is to change the internal name
- from Greek to Greek3, using the Acorn !FontEd application. The article
- mentions this without saying HOW to do it; it was all GREEK to me! So
- after I found out the hard way, here is an idiots guide...
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- Install !FontEd on the iconbar, open up the !Fonts.Greek3 directory, and
- you will see the IntMetrics and Outlines files. Drag the Outlines file
- onto the !FontEd icon on the iconbar. A window will then open showing
- all the Greek characters. After a pause, you will hear a beep to show
- that the operation is complete. Now click <menu> over this window and
- use the Alter->Font name option to change it from Greek to Greek3. Now
- choose the Save->Outlines and Save->Metrics options in turn; just click
- on the OK boxes, as the file and path names are fine as they are. Be
- very careful not to change anything else! Richard Stery (Wakefield BBC
- Micro User Group)
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- Make sure you take a backup before you try this as you risk losing the
- font if you get it wrong. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Ed.
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- • Recovering deleted files − If you accidentally delete a file you can
- still recover it so long as you take the following steps:
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- (i) Do NOT write any data on the disk.
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- (ii) Use the !DiscEdit program on Careware 2 and look for your file on
- the disc and note the address (in hex) of the start and end of the file.
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- (iii) Now you can use these addresses with the file recoverer program on
- Shareware 9 to extract the file from the disc. Dirk Schafer.
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- • RenderBender on SCSI − In the hint last month, Neil Berry was
- obviously using an early version of Oak’s SCSI interface software in
- which the filing system was referred to as SCSIFS, so all references to
- “SCSIFS::” should be replaced by “SCSI::”.
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- • SWI“OS_PrettyPrint” works in VDU 5 mode (print text at graphics
- cursor) as well as VDU 4 mode (print text at text cursor). It formats
- the text according to the current graphics clipping window (set by VDU
- 24). For more details on OS_PrettyPrint see Archive 1.7 p9. Paul
- Witheridge.
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- • System variables for the Filer Module (revisited) − Here is a simpler
- solution to the problem of not being able to use system variables with
- the *Filer_OpenDir and *Filer_CloseDir commands than was suggested in
- Archive 3.11 p7.
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- *SetMacro Alias$Filer_OpenDir Set Alias%Foo %Filer_OpenDir
- %0|Mfoo|MUnset Alias%foo|M
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- *SetMacro Alias$Filer_CloseDir Set
- Alias$foo%Filer_CloseDir%0|Mfoo|Munset Alias%foo|M
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- Once these two lines have been typed, *Filer_OpenDir and *Filer_CloseDir
- can then be used with system variables. Michael Ben-Gershon.
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- • !Edit functions keys − Two more undocumented function key actions for
- EDIT (in addition to <shift><f1> as described in Archive 3.4 p5). These
- are: <Ctrl><f2> which is equivalent to clicking on the window close icon
- and <ctrl><f7> which toggles between the current caret position and the
- beginning of a marked block. Paul Witheridge.
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