#: 14161 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    02-Feb-92  21:33:37
Sb: #Font Project
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: All

Dear Friends:


As some of you may know, I have long been hoping that someone would write an
OS9 version of MAX-10. After an absence of several months, the project is on
again. At the present time I have a large collection of PD fonts which I have
gotten from various sources. Some are for First Publisher, some VGA screen
fonts, some are from a Bit-Mapped Fonts package. I am currently working on a
program which will allow me to display these fonts on a graphics screen.

I saw a program in the Feb. '90 issue of PCM (Rainbow's sister magazine) by
Bill Barden (pgs 147ff) which would do just this. It is written in BASIC and I
am converting it to OS9. The program opens a font file as a random fiule and
then reads in 100 bytes at a time. To do so it uses the following instructions:



OPEN #path, FILENAME$ AS #1 LEN=100

FIELD #1, 100 AS B$

I cannot get this to work under OS9. Can anyone help with these lines. Or
perhaps you know of a Basic09 file reader program already uploaded, with
source, that implements this sort of thing. Finally, does anyone know where I
might be able to get information on the file formats that First Publisher uses?
Any help in these matters will be deeply appreciated.

With all good wishes,

Br. Jeremy, CSJW



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