More than 255 fonts in 3.0?

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From: Paul Marcos
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 05:11

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Is there anybody out there who currently has more than 255 fonts 
installed and available on the NeXT running 3.0?  I just went
to install several new font faces and only some of them showed
up.  I've been banging my head against the wall for hours. 

1.  I'm installing all my fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts (actually 
the Fonts directory is a symbolic link to a Fonts directory on an 
external disk, but this *shouldn't* matter).

2.  I've run buildafmdir in this directory.

3.  The fonts are all valid type 1 fonts.  

4.  If I first remove some other fonts, all of the new ones appear.

I finally broke down and counted all of the fonts that were available. 
Lo and behold, there were exactly 255!  This is including all Typefaces
in all families.  What gives?  Don't tell me it a 3.0 bug?!?

I looked in FAQ and all of my online stuff but found no reference to 
a limitation.  There were references to potential problems in 2.1 
when a user had > 500 fonts installed in their system so it's got
to work.  

What's the catch?  Any help would be appreciated. 

Paul

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Subject: More than 255 fonts in 3.0?
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 05:11:00 GMT
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