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- From: reeuwijk@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl (Kees van Reeuwijk)
- Subject: Re: GDOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.215836.20997@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:58:36 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.114149.5319@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
- >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.
-
- I must admit that I've never looked into this problem, but can't you
- simply detect that GDOS cannot load a font, and tell the user about it?
- Something like
- "[Cannot use font [blah].|Perhaps insert the font disk?][ Retry ][ Cancel ]"
- This would even cover removable harddisks.
-
- Also, juggling with disks like this is very difficult. It is very easy
- to miss a case where the wrong disk is inserted. Are you sure you
- want to do this?
-
- =-=-=-=
- C. van Reeuwijk e-mail: C.vReeuwijk@ET.TUDelft.NL
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