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A friend of mine recently bought an Mac+ which has some strange problems.
The problem is that numbers are not often displayed correctly.  For example,
from time to time if he does an 'get info' from the finder some files would
be have a display like:  'Imagewriter is 32?50 bytes accounts for 3?.1 K on
disk'.  Sometimes the character is ">" instead of "?".
This problem does not occur on all files.

At first, I thought that problem may be related to a corrupted font resource
so I gave him my system, replaced fonts, etc, but the problem still
persisted.  Also, this problem doesn't just occur when the finder is trying
to calculate disk space.  For example, from time to time in the score in
Dark Castle will be incorrectly displayed.  When this happens he usually
sees on of those undefined-character squares in a digit's place.

Oh, he's experienced this problem from using the following systems:
* unmodified finder 5.2/system 3.1.1
* unmodified finder 5.3/system 3.2
* finder 5.3/system 3.2 +/- some fonts
* finder 5.3/system 3.2 +/- some fonts and some DA's
* finder 5.3/system 3.2 +/- some fonts, DA's, + PD domain stuff from usenet

I don't think the problem is in the parameter ram section either, it
continues to occur after I reset his pram.

Has anyone ever experienced any problems like this before?  Any suggestions
on what to do?

Christopher Chow
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