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- !FontManager and how it changes Font$Path
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- When EXTENDED PATHS is ON
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- This creates a number of system variables
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- <Za$Path>, <Zb$Path>, <Zc$Path> etc...
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- each of these system variables is a macro, and
- it holds the pathname of a group.
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- <F$Dir>.Symbols, <F$Dir>.SanSerifs
-
- You may have noticed that the first paths are
- shorter and that in fact they can be
- represented by an even shorter notation:
-
- Za:, Zb:, Zc:
-
- So, written to <Font$Path> is Za:,Zb:,Zc: and
- so more groups can fit into the 256bytes that
- are avaiable.
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- With EXTENDED PATHS turned OFF.
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- This simply writes the paths into <Font$Path>
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- Resources:$.Fonts.,<F$Dir>.SanSerif., <F$Dir>.
- Roman.,<F$Dir>.Old.
-
- So you can see how 256 bytes can be eaten up
- *VERY* quickly. This is the reason why I
- strongly reccomend that EXTENDED PATHS be
- left on.
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