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- From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
- Subject: Re: GDOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.114149.5319@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1jouq8INNe2o@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1993Jan25.125050.24439@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.134937.16266@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:41:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.134937.16266@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >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
-
- My reason for wanting this is quite simple - if someone has their
- fonts on a hard disk, there is no need to prompt, so they will get
- annoyed if prompted for a floppy. On the other hand, with no HD, you
- NEED to prompt. IT IS NOT TRUE that the ASSIGN.SYS file has to be on
- the same disk as the fonts - it only has to be in the root directory
- of the boot disk - the fonts can be on a completely separate disk.
- (if you don't believe me, try it!) Therefore - I cannot rely on it
- being present to check the PATH.
-
- I have no intention of bypassing GDOS - I just want to use it exactly
- as it is!
-
- Keith.
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