Re: Trouble creating fonts.

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From: Peter Ruczynski
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 08:19

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In article <1147@tuura.UUCP> risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes:
>mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes:
>
>>>1. is that there is a switch to link that I don't know about
>>  There is an undocumented switch, but not to link. From what I understand,
>>  even though link aborts with an error, it has created the correct .exe
>>  file. However, it has "set the error bit" in the exefile header. Now, there
>>  is an undocumented switch to rc that clears this "error bit". ...

Err?!?!  I wrote the original article/question but I haven't seen this post!
Could someone mail it to me as the most important bit seems to be missing
(i.e. the actual switch to rc!) from this precis.

>Well, 'EXEHDR/R errlink.exe' does what you suggest.  Haven't tried whether it
>solves the font problem, though.

I'll try this when I get around to finally trying to create .fon files again.
At the moment I'm happy using a screwey dll and AddFontResource()!

>Terveisin: Risto Lankinen

Pete.

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Subject: Re: Trouble creating fonts.
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