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901106c@axe.acadiau.ca (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. 

I have had similar behaviour on my system.  Check your CONFIG.SYS file and
make sure you've got "FILES = 120" (or some number higher than 120).

Personally, I've found the best solution is to pick the fonts you find most
useful and get rid of the rest. :)  My font directory had 127 files in it,
after a cleanout, it had 50.  I don't use the "Inter" font, as it's a big
font (in terms of disk space and/or memory) and tends to crash things all
by itself.  I had similar problems with Kramer, recently, but got rid of it
since I didn't particularly like it.

I don't know if adjusting your Handles setting will help in this situation.
The main trick is the FILES setting, since each time you use a font, GEOS
opens that font, using up one "file" in DOS.

-Shag

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