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- From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Programming MEMORY.SYS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.113124.12404@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Keywords: FontGDOS, MEMORY.SYS, META.SYS, VDI
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <C1ItAG.Ivw@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:31:24 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <C1ItAG.Ivw@cs.bham.ac.uk> cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd) writes:
- >
- >I'm getting curiouser by the minute! Does anyone have the GDOS
- >programming guide mentioned in the FontGDOS docs?
- >
-
- If they do, could they tell me where to get it?
-
- I asked a question the other day, which everyone seemed to
- misunderstand, so I'll re-state it it a different way, in the hope
- that someone can help me. I'm using GDOS fonts in a program I'm
- writing, I'm not trying to hack GDOS, just using them as usual. The
- problem I have is how to find the fonts when I need them. If people
- have their fonts on a hard drive, they have no need of a prompt, as
- the fonts will be directly accessible. However, people without a
- hard disk will need a prompt to insert the font disk, before I can
- call vst_load_fonts. I don't want to dictate that the fonts must be on
- the program disk, as the program already has to access a large amount
- of data, and space is limited.
-
- Several people suggested I looked in the ASSIGN.SYS file, but I cannot
- assume that the boot disk will be present, and I have the same problem
- about finding that as I do with the fonts! The point I was making is
- that GDOS must load the font path into memory on boot-up, as IT has to
- find the fonts, so: Is there any way of getting this information back
- from GDOS?
-
- I can't imagine that I'm the first person to have this problem.
-
- Keith.
-
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