Conference hydra::amiga_v1

531.0. "PD Fonts" by PLDVAX::SMCAFEE (Steve McAfee) Fri Jun 05 1987 13:47

    
    I finally downloaded the pearl 8 font which came over the usenet
    some time ago.  I rather like it.  Anyhow, I also downloaded a
    couple of other fonts which someone else posted called "erics" and
    "ericbd".  The poster made available a program call "test".  Which
    would could be used to patch a font in place of the default topaz font.
    I found this to be useful since I liked the pearl font so much.
    Basically, in my startup-sequence I have something like:
    
       setfont pearl.font   ! I renamed the program from test to setfont.
    
    Now anything I start up will use the pearl font rather than topaz.
    If you do this before you "loadwb", even the workbench menus will use
    the new font.  (Although I did notice that the workbench screen title bar
    was still topaz. Most likely this is set up before the startup-sequence
    is even executed.)
    
    So, if you want either of these they will be in
    
      ant::bipolar:[smcafee.public]pearl.shar
      ant::bipolar:[smcafee.public]repfont.shar
    
    regards,
    
    steve mcafee

    Steve,
    	Do you have these ARC'ed too. I don't have the SHAR program
    for the AMIGA. Or maybe you could point me to a copy of said program
    somewhere on the net. 
    
    Thanks for any help!
    
    Chris

    
    I agree, anybody for an ARCed version?
    
    
    
    
    
    ph
     

    
    I always unshar the files on the VAX.  You can find shar.c and shar.exe
    in the same directory.
    
    You're also going to need uudecode on either the vax or amiga. 
    I do it on the vax.  I'll put uudecode.exe in the directory too.
    Any file that ends in .uu or .uue probably needs to be uudecoded.
    
    regards,
    
    steve mcafee
    
    BTW  Both of these will have to be defined with a dollar sign as
         foriegn commands.   (i.e. $ shar :== $diskname:[dir.dir]shar.exe)