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In article <1508@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>, andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy
Peterman) writes:
> Something that never ceases to amaze me is that I still use an OLD
> version of Microsoft File (created Jan. 4, 1985) for some old inventory
> databases.  Not only does it work perfectly on my current system (a IIcx
> with System 6.0.3 and all sorts of INITs and cdev's) but it uses the
> full 13" screen size flawlessly!  Sounds like Microsoft followed the
> rules, even those that didn't exist back then.

You must not have very many fonts.  I still use MS-File for some old
databases, and when I went to make a LaserWriter printout of one and tried
to change the fonts to laser fonts, I discovered that the font list (a
scrolling list in a dialog box) consisted of some small number of real
fonts and a lot of BLANK entries!  The real fonts were apparently randomly
chosen (probably the ones with the lowest IDs).  I managed to find (blank) 
Times and (blank) Helvetica by click-and-hope, but it was a real pain.

Don't you know by now that Microsoft NEVER follows the rules?

- David D. Levine, Intel IMSO Tech Pubs
  davidl@leonardo.intel.com
  "Fo'tunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency."