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Re: Redirecting TeXture's search for fo

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From: Simon Tortike
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 15:06
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In article <110300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>>An added advantage of Suitcase is that Font&Sound Valet which is
>>included with Suitcase will compress your 9MB of fonts down to 5MB.
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>Gag! Wow - how do you get 9 megabytes of fonts? I have TeX on my PC
>and have only 7.5 megabytes. This includes complete sets

I couldn't resist answering this.  I have Blue Sky's entire set of TeX
fonts (bitmap) for TeXtures, taking up 23 Mbytes of disk.  I suppose it
depends what one means by "the full set".  I edited the boot blocks of
my hard disks using Fedit+ to support more open windows and files.
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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
University of Alberta,                    | uucp   : simon@alberta.uucp
Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6.             | 

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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
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Subject: Re: Redirecting TeXture's search for fo
Message-ID: <1989Oct31.150646.24489@alberta.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 89 15:06:46 GMT
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Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta
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