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- Subject: Re: Executor/DOS problems handling Mac fonts
- Cc: executor@ardi.com
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- In-reply-to: <4kfrgv$ngg@sloth.swcp.com>
- To: Kyle Silfer <kyle@rtoads.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:14:54 +0200
- From: Karsten Schneeberger <ks@fotodesign.spacenet.de>
- Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
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- On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Kyle Silfer wrote:
-
- > I convert a lot of Mac fonts for my PC, and prior to Executor, I
- > would use Mac-ette (a good Mac disk reader) to copy them over before
- > running some conversion utilities. Fonts copied via Executor/DOS,
- > however, give me errors when I attempt to convert them.
-
- The same font copied via Mac-ette works fine. This
- > leads me to believe that the resource fork (which is where the
- > goods reside in a Mac font) is not handled with 100% accuracy for
- > this particular purpose.
- >
- > Anybody have a similar difficulty with fonts?
-
- Yes, I also did't suceed by using Executor. Now I copy the fonts
- to a DOS-formatted floppy on a real mac and I can read the resources
- that are contained in (hidden) directory a:\resource.frk\*.*
-
- --- Karsten Schneeberger
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