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

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3 total messages Started by TIM CHIPMAN Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:19

#1104

Author: TIM CHIPMAN
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:19

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I am running pcgeos/working model on a 486/33 with 8 megs ram, 80meg HD, 
SVGA monitor, etc etc. System resources are quite adequate, I believe.

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. 

However, I seem to recall that there was a solution for this, (I have been 
following this group for a while)... something to do with handles..?

Can someone PLEASE tell me what I should do to make geos happy again???

Thanks! I appreciate any help I can get.

Tim Chipman
901106c@axe.acadiau.ca
901106c@dragon.acadiau.ca




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

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Author: 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

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

#1097

Author: Shag
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:51

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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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