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bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:

> I'm formatting and installing software on a client's new HD, and have
> run into a problem with the large number of fonts he wants on there.
> I'm putting everything in SYS:Fonts (FONTS:) for convenience (this
> drive is 320 megs so for now at least he has space to spare), but in
> a few cases this is proving difficult.  For example, he has many 
> disks full of Kara fonts (as do I, but mine have to stay on floppy...)
> and some of the disks have the same fonts as other disks but in 
> different sizes... well, I want them in the same directory, but the
> .font files are not the same and if I just choose one to put in, programs
> can't find the other fonts.  For example, one disk has Brick 89 and 105,
> and another has 55 and 72 (or whatever). I  put them all in FONTS:Brick
> and put brick.font from the first disk in FONTS:, and DPaint III or 
> other programs only see 89 and 105, and can't access 55 and 72.
> 
> So... after reading all this, someone please tell me how to fix the 
> .font files?  And please don't tell me there's a utility on the Extras
> disk or something which does this because I shall be horribly embarrassed
> if there is.
> 
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On the Workbench disk, in the System drawer, there is a program (I firget 
the name - never used it) that fixes this and automatically updated your 
FONTS: dir.

-Joseph Hillenburg

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