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In article <5992.AA5992@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
> In Message <5146@super.ORG>, rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes
> >
> >In article <5960.AA5960@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
> >>  You can use the FF (FastFonts) program supplied with 1.3
> >>  Try:
> >>                FF >nil: amiga.font
> >ain't so, ain't so. I have tried this. I never get an error message,
> 
>   Sorry to shoot you down, but I just tried this with a "STOCK" CBM 1.3 (RELEASE)
>   workbench. And it worked perfectly! (#1) if your using the ">nil:" you wont
>   see any messages (error or not) because their redirected. (#2) make sure your
>   Amiga can find the font your trying to use - check the 'assign' of FONTS: and 
>   also make sure that font actually works.

Well Dan, when I was first setting up the 1.3 release in my environment,
I tried using FF on a slightly modified pearl font as I have mentioned
before.  FF didn't like it.

So, I went to the trouble to "fix" the font, and finally did get FF to
load it when I typed in the command from the CLI.

Put the command in the s-s, and .... didn't work (this was the STOCK s-s,
except for the font name, and there were no assign/path/etc. dependencies).

For some reason, I decided to try moving the FF command out of the s-s, and
into the "StartupII" file (I think that was the name).

Worked fine as the 1st command in StartupII.  Didn't work when I moved
it down further in StartupII.  Pretty busted code, if you ask me.

That was the point that I decided to go back to using BlitzFonts, with
which I've never had any problems.

Besides, in testing FastFonts out ages ago, I found that BlitzFonts was
faster than FastFonts, though only marginally so.

/kim

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