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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: GDOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134937.16266@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1993Jan22.123136.20017@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1jouq8INNe2o@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1993Jan25.125050.24439@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:49:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.125050.24439@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
- >floppy. GDOS must store this information itself somewhere, so surely
- >there is a way of reading it.
-
- QED - not. While you are right that GDOS must store the information
- somewhere, this does not imply there is a way of reading it.
- I think you mean there SHOULD be a way of reading it, which is debatable in
- itself - what do you want to know where the fonts are stored for? If you are
- writing a program that by-passes GDOS for font handling then DON'T - Speedo
- GDOS will be out soon with scalable fonts and faster bitmapped ones so your
- effort will be wasted.
- If you really need to find out where the fonts are stored (and I'd be
- interested to know why) then the previous answer is the best you are going to
- get. Your problem with not being able to find ASSIGN.SYS on a floppy system
- is invalid because the ASSIGN.SYS file must be on the same disk as the fonts,
- and you'd have to prompt for the fonts disk anyway, in order to access them.
-
- - Leo
-