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From: Hasko Heinecke <hasko@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: VW2.0, Win95 & printing ...
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Geert-Jan Ringerwle wrote:
> The application i wrote in VW 2.0 prints OK under DOS/WvW3.11 but
> when i try to print something under Windows 95 the primitive
> ListFontNames fails.

The Win 95 function GetFaceName in GDI32.DLL has a bug that makes the
primitive fail. It is possible to work around this, but Win 95 is still
no supported platform. There may be other bugs that prevent host
printing, I haven't investigated this.


> Geert-Jan Ringerwle
> e-mail: ringerwole@research.kpn.com

Hasko

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