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      FONTS DISK
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Compiled by M.Brown for the Official Amos PD Library.
25 Park Road, Wigan, WN5 7AA. Tel 0942 495261.

Instructions for use/Information
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You should know that Amos is capable of using Amiga system fonts. You 
should also be aware of how the Amiga works in this department. On turning
on the Amiga, the first disk that is booted becomes the SYS: (System) logical
device and it is on this disk that the Amiga searches for progs/data in the 
C Dir, S Dir, DEVS Dir, L Dir, LIBS Dir and more importantly here the FONTS
Dir. 

The upshot of all this is that initially the Amiga will only look on the 
default bootdisk for it`s fonts. This is obviously no good if we have a 
disk full of better fonts to use rather than the usual pile we are given
with Workbench.

There are two ways we can get round this, firstly we can copy fonts onto
the bootdisk so we always have them available, this means that there should
be enough space for them prior to copying. There is a much better way 
however and luckily there`s a CLI command just for it`s purpose.

That command is called ASSIGN. The command creates and changes what are
termed ~Logical Devices~ - this is nothing to get worried about, all it does
is tell the Amiga what is available and where to look for it. 

We`re interested in telling the Amiga where our fonts are and to do this we
use ....

ASSIGN FONTS: Apd5:Fonts

This is done via the CLI, just open a CLI window, type the above & bingo!

This command tells the Amiga that the default FONTS: directory is now to
be found on the disk APD5 in the Fonts directory.

If you still don`t understand it, don`t worry! The Amiga will now prompt
for this disk to be inserted whenever fonts are accessed.

The same method can be used for any other program that uses fonts often
and also with Deluxe Paint 1 and 2. Deluxe Paint 3 allows you to change
the font path directly within the program.

If you do not do the ASSIGN command then the only fonts that will be 
accessed will be the ones on your boot disk.



Press ESC to see a few examples of the fonts on this disk...