#: 4489 S3/Languages
    19-Jun-90  03:06:43
Sb: #4473-#Running Basic09
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: George Gavaghan 76236,421 (X)

Geo - Ah. What happened was that wcreate'ing the window automatically defaults
the font to stdfonts... unfortunately they don't exist yet .

So do the same lines, EXCEPT do the stdfonts merge BEFORE wcreating the window.
Now when the window is made, os9 finds the font in memory and can use it right
away.

Also, you might want to say "merge /d0/sys/stdfonts" instead of the way they
did it, as you might not be sitting on the root dir of the disk with the SYS
subdirectory like they assume. You can tell they assumed this because they used
a relative pathlist "sys/stdfonts" instead of an absolute pathlist like
"/d0/sys/stdfonts".

Which reminds me of a side tip which always helps new OS-9 users: when you CHD
or CHX to a new disk/dir, OS9 remembers that spot on that *one* particular disk
(not the pathnames themselves)... so switching disks and not using chd/chx
again (or not using full pathnames with the drive name in front) will often
cause confusion on the part of os9 and yourself .

Hope you can get 512K soon... the machine really opens up enormously when you
do... almost no limit, practically speaking. Keep at it! best -kev

PS: you could also have blindly typed "display 1b3a c801" while in the dots,
which means "use font c8 01", which are the stdfonts group/buffer numbers.
Bing. It'd have come up. Try "display 1b3a c802" just for fun, also. That's the
stdfonts 6x8 version.

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