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	Wow.  I've finally found a Mac --> PC cross-platform problem 
Executor can't seem to help me with, so here's an appeal for a (preferrably 
freeware) solution to a small problem.

THE PROBLEM: 	I need to convert a Mac TrueType font to a Windows TrueType
	     	font.  I have a DOS program which does this.  Mac TT fonts
		are stored in resource forks.  If I take the Mac font
		and copy it to a FAT volume in Executor, I get a 0-byte
		data fork-file (fontname, we'll call it), and a good-sized
		%fontname file (~400k, say).  The problem is that
		the DOS program can't find the font info. in this file
		(usually it can detect what kind of info. is in a file),
		I think because the %fontname file has, in addition to
		the resources, the finder information.  I need a way of 
		getting JUST the resource fork, nothing else, into a
		DOS file.

Ideas?  Thanks.  Please e-mail suggestions, files to look for on Info-MAC, 
etc.

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu



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