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- From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
- Subject: Re: GDOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125050.24439@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1993Jan22.123136.20017@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1jouq8INNe2o@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:50:50 GMT
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- In article <1jouq8INNe2o@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> CASTAN@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Gerd Castan) writes:
- >In <1993Jan22.123136.20017@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >> I know this is probably something in most manuals, but it isn't in mine.
- >> Can anyone tell me how to find out what directory GDOS is looking for it's
- >> fonts in? - i.e. the path set at the top of the ASSIGN.SYS file.
- >>
- >> I know there is a vdi or aes call that returns about 110 or so bytes
-
- I meant vq_extnd
-
- >> of info, but I don't have a description of what they are - is there a
- >> pointer in here somwhere?
- >The only way is to read ASSIGN.SYS.
- >You'll find it on your boot partition.
- >There is a global variable whitch says what's your NEXT boot partition,
- >but that's equal to the last boot partition in most cases.
- >
-
- Yes, but if you don't have a hard drive, the fonts may be on floppy,
- so you have to prompt for them. Also, you can't guarantee to have the
- ASSIGN.SYS file present. What I want to do is find some way of
- knowing whether the fonts are on a hard disk (i.e. drive >= C) or on a
- floppy. GDOS must store this information itself somewhere, so surely
- there is a way of reading it.
-
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