Re: AARRGGG.. New Font/Da Mover

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From: gus
Date: Fri, 17 May 1985 19:11

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> 	I just got the new upgrade and found out that Apple's new Font/DA
> Mover will still not support font ID numbers greater than 255!  Why..? 
> Has Apple decided that this is a feature, or are they simply to stupid to
> fix it?  It's only a 2 line fix - I wrote a Font Manager program for 
> Quick & Dirty disk#1 (by Dreams of the Phoenix), and it's simple to handle
> large font ID numbers.
> 		Bill Pugh
> 		Cornell University

As I understand, there may be bugs in the ROM font manager that keep
fonts with negative resource ID's  from working correctly.

						Gus Fernandez

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