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- From: stevem@cs.utexas.edu (Steve Anthony Mariotti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Does anyone recognize _Jackson?
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 20:21:10 -0500
- Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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- References: <1992Sep4.133844.20178@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <30569@goofy.Apple.COM>
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- In article <30569@goofy.Apple.COM> dwb@apple.com (David W. Berry) writes:
- >In article <lbaaheINNmja@coltexo.cs.utexas.edu> Steve Anthony Mariotti,
- >stevem@cs.utexas.edu writes:
- >>A similar question to yours: what the hell is _Bass? I was getting some
- >>crashes when a program I was fixing thrashed thePort, and my stack crawl
- >>led me through some code low in memory (very low, like $00001000 or so)
- >that
- >>called _Bass.
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- >Since Bass was the code name for the spline font project, I assume that
- >_Bass is an internal trap implementing the spline fonts.
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- Ok, so now the question is: Is it pronounced like the fish or the four-stringed
- electric instrument? BASE or BASS, I gotta know.
-
- Steve Mariotti
- stevem@cs.utexas.edu
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