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- From: ilepore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Lepore)
- Subject: Re: Programming MEMORY.SYS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.183954.29457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Keywords: FontGDOS, MEMORY.SYS, META.SYS, VDI
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- References: <C1ItAG.Ivw@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan28.113124.12404@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:39:54 GMT
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- >> Does anyone have the GDOS programming guide? Where to get it?
- > How to find font path, handle fonts-on-floppy, etc.
-
- I have programming docs for GDOS and FSMGDOS. Where-to-get-it is Atari, but
- it ain't free. Also, I can tell you now that it doesn't detail any internals
- of GDOS, I don't remember any function for finding the font path, and there
- isn't enough info to help you go find it in any non-documented way. I also
- don't remember any sort of recommendation on how to deal with vst_load_fonts()
- when the font path may be a floppy and the disk may need switching.
-
- I'll bet Atari assumed anybody doing work with software complex enough to
- use multiple fonts will be using a hard disk. Not an unreasonable assumption,
- I say.
-