Re: How to prevent system Hangup After installing LOTS of fonts??

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From: Noel Ang
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:36

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In article <901106c.390.728075982@axe.acadiau.ca> 9011
(TIM CHIPMAN) writes:

>I recently downloaded from wuarchive.wustl.edu all of the gwfont0##.ZIP 
>files full of fonts. I then UNZIPPED them into the appropriate directory 
>(/fonts or whatever)
>Anyway. After playing around with them for a while, the system hung. Dead as 
>a doornail. First time geos has done that sort of thing to me. 
>Can someone PLEASE tell me what I should do to make geos happy again???

Tim-

I don't know if handles would help, but try upping your FILES= setting in
your CONFIG.SYS file.  I believe that PC/Geos opens all font files it finds
during start up (for instance, try deleting any of the fonts inside
PC/Geos--you can't, because they're 'in use').

Noel Ang
noir@netcom.com

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