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Font problem solved

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From: doug
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 16:22
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This is the denoument to my earlier font problem posting.  It turns out that
my Mac is fine in every respect.  The problem was that many, many months ago 
I had been using Font/DA Juggler and I compressed all the files on my hard
disk.  Then when I tried to read them using Font/DA mover (more recently) the
program read what I presume is bogus data and blew up.  This really points
to two errors:

1)  F/DA Juggler should have changed the owner of the file and the file type
    so that the file's icon wouldn't be that of the normal Font file and so
    Font/DA Mover wouldn't have agreed to open the file.  This is a plain and
    simple accident waiting to happen.  A naive user would never, ever have
    figured this problem out.  F/DA Juggler doesn't even put a note in the
    File's comments.

2)  Font/DA Mover should perform some sanity checks.  If the Font has more
    entries,  or has characters larger then some reasonable maximum (like 
    whatever size F/DA Movers's internal arrays are) it should exit with
    an error or put up an Alert.

I'm kind of annoyed as I even went so far as to analyse the differences between
our Mac's ROM and the ROM in a friends (only to find the only difference was
a patch).

Douglas Rand

Prime Computer			(508) - 879 - 2960 x4182
500 Old Conn Path, MS10C-17	doug@primerd.prime.com
Framingham, Ma 01701
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