• !Thump and a problem

    From Dave@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 6 09:47:43 2023
    G'day folks,
    I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it.
    I drop the directory on the Thump icon bar icon, the Thumbnails are
    displayed, and the display is overlaid with an error message.

    "Thump may have gone wrong. Click Continue to try to resume or Quit to
    stop Thump."

    Doesn't matter which is clicked Thump vanishes.

    Reporter notes thus:

    09:24:30.97 ** Error **
    Error : &80000002
    Message: Internal error: Abort on data transfer at &00027204
    09:24:30.98 ** WimpError ** from Thump
    Error : &80000002
    Message: Internal error: Abort on data transfer at &00027204
    09:24:41.58 TaskClose &66C03A60 Thump

    Please!
    Any obvious solution to this problem?

    Thanks
    Dave

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Dave on Thu Jul 6 10:14:04 2023
    On 6 Jul 2023 as I do recall,
    Dave wrote:

    G'day folks,
    I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it.

    Any Drawfile, or just that specific example?

    Does it contain a text area or anything like that?

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  • From Richard Ashbery@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 6 16:22:55 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, Dave <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    G'day folks, I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it. I drop the
    directory on the Thump icon bar icon, the Thumbnails are displayed,
    and the display is overlaid with an error message.

    "Thump may have gone wrong. Click Continue to try to resume or Quit
    to stop Thump."

    Doesn't matter which is clicked Thump vanishes.

    I've had this and it seems to be a long standing issue.
    Open the ScrapDir eg. !Boot.Resources.Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir
    (path may depend on version of RISC OS).

    Open Thump directory - You are likely to see 2
    files named DirHist and ImageHist and 2 data files. For some reason
    these get corrupted and give the problem you have outlined. Simply
    move Thump directory to a separate filer window (just in case you
    need to go back). Re-load !Thump and drag Drawfiles over the !Thump
    iconbar icon to resume.

    Richard

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  • From Richard Ashbery@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 6 16:42:51 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, Richard Ashbery <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>, Dave
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    G'day folks, I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5
    2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it. I drop the
    directory on the Thump icon bar icon, the Thumbnails are
    displayed, and the display is overlaid with an error message.

    "Thump may have gone wrong. Click Continue to try to resume or
    Quit to stop Thump."

    Doesn't matter which is clicked Thump vanishes.

    I've had this and it seems to be a long standing issue. Open the
    ScrapDir eg. !Boot.Resources.Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir (path may
    depend on version of RISC OS).

    Open Thump directory - You are likely to see 2 files named DirHist
    and ImageHist and 2 data files. For some reason these get corrupted
    and give the problem you have outlined. Simply move Thump directory
    to a separate filer window (just in case you need to go back).
    Re-load !Thump and drag Drawfiles over the !Thump iconbar icon to
    resume.

    Follow-up:

    There is a Rebuild database option under Utilities (Menu button over
    Thump's iconbar icon). The 'rebuild' option in the Thump Iconbar Help
    file outputs a message "Object x not found in Thump" so I'm not sure
    what it does. Might be worth a try though.

    Richard

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Richard Ashbery on Thu Jul 6 18:34:43 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Richard Ashbery <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>, Dave <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    G'day folks, I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it. I drop the
    directory on the Thump icon bar icon, the Thumbnails are displayed,
    and the display is overlaid with an error message.

    "Thump may have gone wrong. Click Continue to try to resume or Quit
    to stop Thump."

    Doesn't matter which is clicked Thump vanishes.

    I've had this and it seems to be a long standing issue.
    Open the ScrapDir eg. !Boot.Resources.Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir
    (path may depend on version of RISC OS).

    Open Thump directory - You are likely to see 2
    files named DirHist and ImageHist and 2 data files. For some reason
    these get corrupted and give the problem you have outlined. Simply
    move Thump directory to a separate filer window (just in case you
    need to go back). Re-load !Thump and drag Drawfiles over the !Thump
    iconbar icon to resume.

    Richard

    Aha! The ScrapDirs problem was the answer Richard.
    Now sorted. :-)

    Thanks

    Dave

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Thu Jul 6 20:15:16 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6 Jul 2023 as I do recall,
    Dave wrote:

    G'day folks,
    I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it.

    Any Drawfile, or just that specific example?

    Does it contain a text area or anything like that?

    Just a directory containing a number of Drawfiles, no text anything, just
    a load of OvPro border files.

    Richards suggestion about the ScrapDir was spot on.

    Thanks
    Dave

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to Dave on Fri Jul 7 11:47:03 2023
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Richard Ashbery <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>, Dave <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    G'day folks, I'm having a problem with Thump 1.56 (a20) (Feb 5 2022)

    RISC OS 6.20 on VRPC-DL.

    I have a directory with some Drawfile within it. I drop the
    directory on the Thump icon bar icon, the Thumbnails are displayed,
    and the display is overlaid with an error message.

    "Thump may have gone wrong. Click Continue to try to resume or Quit
    to stop Thump."

    Doesn't matter which is clicked Thump vanishes.

    I've had this and it seems to be a long standing issue.
    Open the ScrapDir eg. !Boot.Resources.Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir
    (path may depend on version of RISC OS).

    Open Thump directory - You are likely to see 2
    files named DirHist and ImageHist and 2 data files. For some reason
    these get corrupted and give the problem you have outlined. Simply
    move Thump directory to a separate filer window (just in case you
    need to go back). Re-load !Thump and drag Drawfiles over the !Thump
    iconbar icon to resume.

    Richard

    Aha! The ScrapDirs problem was the answer Richard.
    Now sorted. :-)

    Thanks

    Dave
    Hi,
    Thanks for the reminder, I had the same problem.
    Draw files are well displayed in Thump's filer, and I was able to test
    with those converted by Svg2Draw.

    Note, I updated Svg2Draw, calculation errors in the transformations.
    There is still a lot to do....

    If you are interested, the program is on this web page, thank you for
    testing.
    https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/XML.html


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    Jean-Michel

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to Dave on Fri Jul 7 17:08:37 2023
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Note, I updated Svg2Draw, calculation errors in the transformations.
    There is still a lot to do....

    If you are interested, the program is on this web page, thank you for
    testing.
    https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/XML.html

    Svg2Draw will not work on my 6.20 RISC OS it errors with "RMStore.eXML not recognised"

    Dave
    The eXML module is XAT and it's easier to install it in !BootResources.

    http://www.xat.nl/riscos/sw/xml/index.htm

    This will be the first test on 6.20 RISC OS?

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Jean-Michel on Fri Jul 7 15:58:28 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Note, I updated Svg2Draw, calculation errors in the transformations.
    There is still a lot to do....

    If you are interested, the program is on this web page, thank you for testing.
    https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/XML.html

    Svg2Draw will not work on my 6.20 RISC OS it errors with "RMStore.eXML not recognised"

    Dave

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Jean-Michel on Fri Jul 7 19:01:33 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Note, I updated Svg2Draw, calculation errors in the transformations.
    There is still a lot to do....

    If you are interested, the program is on this web page, thank you for
    testing.
    https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/XML.html

    Svg2Draw will not work on my 6.20 RISC OS it errors with "RMStore.eXML
    not recognised"

    Dave
    The eXML module is XAT and it's easier to install it in !BootResources.

    http://www.xat.nl/riscos/sw/xml/index.htm

    This will be the first test on 6.20 RISC OS?

    Thanks Jean-Michel, that was the solution. :-)

    Now for some testing, assuming you don't mind me testing it. :-)

    I have a number of SVG files created in InkScape on the PC side for
    testing.

    Perhaps you would prefer we tested privately, rather than in this public
    forum?

    Let me know?

    Dave

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to Dave on Sat Jul 8 10:37:38 2023
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Note, I updated Svg2Draw, calculation errors in the transformations.
    There is still a lot to do....

    If you are interested, the program is on this web page, thank you for
    testing.
    https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/XML.html

    Svg2Draw will not work on my 6.20 RISC OS it errors with "RMStore.eXML
    not recognised"

    Dave
    The eXML module is XAT and it's easier to install it in !BootResources.

    http://www.xat.nl/riscos/sw/xml/index.htm

    This will be the first test on 6.20 RISC OS?

    Thanks Jean-Michel, that was the solution. :-)
    Nice to see it also working under RISC OS 6.20

    Now for some testing, assuming you don't mind me testing it. :-)
    On the contrary,


    I have a number of SVG files created in InkScape on the PC side for
    testing.
    I don't know inkscape, so it will be a good experimentation and the goal
    of the program is to be able to exchange this type of file which seems
    quite widespread.

    Perhaps you would prefer we tested privately, rather than in this public forum?
    It will be easier to exchange files, because there will certainly be
    problems, the SVG standard is rather vast and I still have to implement
    certain functionalities (except those that Draw cannot reproduce)
    Let me know?
    I await your message and the results of your tests.
    Dave


    Thanks

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  • From Richard Torrens (News)@21:1/5 to Jean-Michel on Sat Jul 15 09:56:45 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I still have to implement
    certain functionalities (except those that Draw cannot reproduce)

    Can OpenVector reproduce some of these?

    http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/openvector/

    OpenVector is a much-enhanced Draw and has many more facilities.

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 15 18:19:01 2023
    In message <5ac446a451news*@Torrens.org>
    "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I still have to implement
    certain functionalities (except those that Draw cannot reproduce)

    Can OpenVector reproduce some of these?
    Maybe, but I don't know how to translate them.

    http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/openvector/

    OpenVector is a much-enhanced Draw and has many more facilities.
    Certainly. When I want to arrange a drawing I use !ArtWorks (transparency,
    for example) or !Procad more technical
    To check the rendering of the drawing, I use !ImageView and so I can
    improve it if necessary.
    What is interesting with Draw is that it is standard under Risc OS and
    serves as a common denominator.

    OpenVector opens files produced by Svg2Draw very well, and can manage
    layers, which is an SVG possibility....


    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon I have
    the following message(s):
    � buffer overflow
    � Trinity.medium not available
    � Academico used instead
    Trinity is in the OS ROM !!!
    This does not prevent OpenVector from working, but the messages appear
    each time a Draw file is opened (except the first one).
    I think this is due to the configuration of my ARMX6 (standard) and the management of fonts?
    If you have an idea ?


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  • From Richard Torrens (News)@21:1/5 to Jean-Michel on Tue Jul 18 14:46:33 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon I have
    the following message(s):
    * buffer overflow
    * Trinity.medium not available
    * Academico used instead
    Trinity is in the OS ROM !!!
    This does not prevent OpenVector from working, but the messages appear
    each time a Draw file is opened (except the first one).
    I think this is due to the configuration of my ARMX6 (standard) and the management of fonts?
    If you have an idea ?

    Trinity is a standard RO font. Should be present on any RO device if it
    hasn't been removed or moved somewhere outside of Boot.

    Buffer overflow I have no idea on. I've used OV on many RO computers
    without problem.

    Best contact Christopher Martin - unless something's happed he is still maintaining OV.

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jul 18 22:23:33 2023
    In message <5ac5eca2fbnews*@Torrens.org>
    "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon I have
    the following message(s):
    * buffer overflow
    * Trinity.medium not available
    * Academico used instead
    Trinity is in the OS ROM !!!
    This does not prevent OpenVector from working, but the messages appear
    each time a Draw file is opened (except the first one).
    I think this is due to the configuration of my ARMX6 (standard) and the
    management of fonts?
    If you have an idea ?

    Trinity is a standard RO font. Should be present on any RO device if it hasn't been removed or moved somewhere outside of Boot.

    Buffer overflow I have no idea on. I've used OV on many RO computers
    without problem.

    Best contact Christopher Martin - unless something's happed he is still maintaining OV.

    Thanks for these informations. I will try to "clean" the fonts on my
    machine, it seems that it has the same problem with !Fireworkz.



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    Jean-Michel

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Jean-Michel on Tue Jul 18 22:17:55 2023
    On 18 Jul 2023 as I do recall,
    Jean-Michel wrote:

    In message <5ac5eca2fbnews*@Torrens.org>
    "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon I have >> the following message(s):
    * buffer overflow
    * Trinity.medium not available
    * Academico used instead
    Trinity is in the OS ROM !!!
    This does not prevent OpenVector from working, but the messages appear
    each time a Draw file is opened (except the first one).
    I think this is due to the configuration of my ARMX6 (standard) and the
    management of fonts?
    If you have an idea ?

    Trinity is a standard RO font. Should be present on any RO device if it hasn't been removed or moved somewhere outside of Boot.

    Buffer overflow I have no idea on. I've used OV on many RO computers without problem.

    Best contact Christopher Martin - unless something's happed he is still maintaining OV.

    Thanks for these informations. I will try to "clean" the fonts on my
    machine, it seems that it has the same problem with !Fireworkz.

    Do you have a "Messages" file inside !Fonts (used to speed up font
    loading, but not necessary/essential) that might be corrupted?

    --
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    But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Wed Jul 19 11:45:29 2023
    In message <[email protected]>
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 18 Jul 2023 as I do recall,
    Jean-Michel wrote:

    In message <5ac5eca2fbnews*@Torrens.org>
    "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Jean-Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon I have >>>> the following message(s):
    * buffer overflow
    * Trinity.medium not available
    * Academico used instead
    Trinity is in the OS ROM !!!
    This does not prevent OpenVector from working, but the messages appear >>>> each time a Draw file is opened (except the first one).
    I think this is due to the configuration of my ARMX6 (standard) and the >>>> management of fonts?
    If you have an idea ?

    Trinity is a standard RO font. Should be present on any RO device if it
    hasn't been removed or moved somewhere outside of Boot.

    Buffer overflow I have no idea on. I've used OV on many RO computers
    without problem.

    Best contact Christopher Martin - unless something's happed he is still
    maintaining OV.

    Thanks for these informations. I will try to "clean" the fonts on my
    machine, it seems that it has the same problem with !Fireworkz.

    Do you have a "Messages" file inside !Fonts (used to speed up font
    loading, but not necessary/essential) that might be corrupted?
    Bonjour Harriet,

    This morning Fonts cleaning!
    with !Chars I retested all the fonts and some, although listed, were no
    longer present.
    I deleted them, but the fault persists, so deletion of all the Messages
    files in the Font folders.
    And now no more problems with !Thump and !FireWorkz, nice.

    Question: who builds these message files and updates them?

    Merci beaucoup.

    --
    Jean-Michel

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jul 19 15:22:45 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 18 Jul 2023 as I do recall, Jean-Michel wrote:

    In message <5ac5eca2fbnews*@Torrens.org> "Richard Torrens (News)"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>, Jean-Michel
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have a problem with OpenVector. when I install it on the baricon
    I have the following message(s): * buffer overflow *
    Trinity.medium not available * Academico used instead Trinity is
    in the OS ROM !!! This does not prevent OpenVector from working,
    but the messages appear each time a Draw file is opened (except
    the first one). I think this is due to the configuration of my
    ARMX6 (standard) and the management of fonts? If you have an idea ?

    Trinity is a standard RO font. Should be present on any RO device
    if it hasn't been removed or moved somewhere outside of Boot.

    Buffer overflow I have no idea on. I've used OV on many RO
    computers without problem.

    Best contact Christopher Martin - unless something's happed he is
    still maintaining OV.

    Thanks for these informations. I will try to "clean" the fonts on my machine, it seems that it has the same problem with !Fireworkz.

    Do you have a "Messages" file inside !Fonts (used to speed up font
    loading, but not necessary/essential) that might be corrupted?

    I've deleted my Messages file as it caused a problem in the past.
    Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was and I can't find a
    note about it. Fonts working happily without it.

    --
    Chris

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Chris Newman on Wed Jul 19 22:16:54 2023
    On 19 Jul, Chris Newman wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    I've deleted my Messages file as it caused a problem in the past. Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was and I can't find a
    note about it. Fonts working happily without it.

    It's built by the FontInstall utility within Configure, but can go awry if fonts are then added or removed by hand (bypassing FontInstall).

    --
    Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Thu Jul 20 07:04:50 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 19 Jul, Chris Newman wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    I've deleted my Messages file as it caused a problem in the past. Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was and I can't find a
    note about it. Fonts working happily without it.

    It's built by the FontInstall utility within Configure, but can go awry
    if fonts are then added or removed by hand (bypassing FontInstall).

    I got rid of the Font.Messages file many years ago, I don't remember the
    fine details now, but it was causing problems with the RISC OS Font
    management app I use.

    RISC OS 6.20

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Jean-Michel@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Thu Jul 20 09:27:17 2023
    In message <[email protected]>
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 19 Jul, Chris Newman wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    I've deleted my Messages file as it caused a problem in the past.
    Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was and I can't find a
    note about it. Fonts working happily without it.

    It's built by the FontInstall utility within Configure, but can go awry if fonts are then added or removed by hand (bypassing FontInstall).

    Yes, on reflection, it seems to me that this is the only time this file
    could be created. Thank you for confirmation.

    !FontInstall allows you to remove Fonts?
    The easiest way would be to delete the font directory and the messages
    file, that's just a guess.

    --
    Jean-Michel

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 20 10:20:20 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 19 Jul, Chris Newman wrote in message <[email protected]>:

    I've deleted my Messages file as it caused a problem in the past. Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was and I can't find
    a note about it. Fonts working happily without it.

    It's built by the FontInstall utility within Configure, but can go awry
    if fonts are then added or removed by hand (bypassing FontInstall).

    That was it. I remember now.

    --
    Chris

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