Re: Getting Mac TT Fonts to Pointless

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <SKNKWRKS.93Apr27142311@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>, Scott Alfter writes...
> 
> In any case, I managed to borrow a 3.5" drive from somebody, FTP'd the
> fonts off of the UNIX box to a Mac LC (talk about a machine that's
> slow as sin--ugh),

    Just a Mac *LC*?!?  I'm using LC III's to FTP files from my UNIX
account to floppy, and things slow to a crawl when that happens
(assuming NCSA Telnet doesn't hang the darn computer half way
through...)  :(

> Before Pointless would recognize the fonts, though, I had to copy them
> to a ProDOS volume and change the filetype to $C8/$0001... I didn't have
> it try to read the fonts directly from the Mac-formatted floppy and the
> FST doesn't properly translate the Mac's filetype/creator info to the
> II's filetype/auxtype.

    The HFS FST won't translate file types (with the possible exception
of text files).  Pointless will read any forked file regardless of their
filetype, but it will automatically change it to $C8/0001 when you load
the font in for the first time.  That's been my experience, anyway.
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