From: Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@s...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:06:13 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
> On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Michael Blair wrote: Linux doesn't count 'cuz it's free, eh? What is extant anyway? "Still being used" or "still being sold"?
From: Alun Thomas <alun.thomas@c...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:19:50 +0000
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
> maxxon@swob.dna.fi wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Michael Blair wrote: 'cuz its american (well, Unix is anyway - not sure about Linux itself) > What is extant anyway? "Still being used" or "still being sold"? Well, I'm not sure which Michael ment, but both are true of RISC-OS.
From: Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@s...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:55:57 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Alun Thomas wrote: > maxxon@swob.dna.fi wrote: Maybe, just maybe, you should check before you guess, eh? Clipped from www.linux.org: "Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland." > > What is extant anyway? "Still being used" or "still being sold"? Yeah, but if it's the former, certain old legacy systems qualify. And what's an OS anyway? Do e.g. digital phone switches count?
From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:17:22 -0800
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
I have posted a Font for the Full Thrust system symbols on my web page.
From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:33:05 -0800
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
Oops, I just noticed that 3 symbols are not in this version: FTL Left half of Engine pentagram Right half of Engine pentagram
From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:04:06 -0800
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
The font is now pdated on my web page. Key Equivalents: a - A Beam PFS (Port Forward Starboard) A - A Beam F b - B Beam PFS B - B Beam F c - C Beam PFS C - C Beam F e - ECM E - Area ECM f - Fighter F - Fast Fighter g - Attack Fighter G - Torpedo Fighter h - Heavy Fighter i - Intercepter I - Cloak (Invisable) l - Mine Layer L - Mine Sweeper m - Submunitions F M - Submunitions P n - Needle Gun F N - Nova Cannon o - Needle Gun P O - Needle Gun S p - PDAF P - ADAF r - Reflex Shield R - Missile (Rocket) s - Screen S - EMP Missile t - Torpedo T - Needle Torpedo v - Enhanced Sensors (View) V - Superior Sensors w - Wave Gun x - Weasel, Cruiser X - Weasel, Capital 1 - A Beam P ! - A Beam S 2 - A Beam PF @ - A Beam FS 4 - B Beam P $ - B Beam S 5 - B Beam PF % - B Beam FS 7 - C Beam P & - C Beam S 8 - C Beam PF * - AA Mega Beam 9 - C Beam FS 0 - Submunition Pack S , - damage box . - FCS ~ - FTL [ - Left half of Thrust Engine ] - Right half of Thrust Engine
From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:29:55 +0100
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
> Brian wrote: > The font is now pdated on my web page. Looks great! ...now how do I convince my Politically Correct (ie, stupid) computer to use the font...? (I use MS Works as word processor.) Hoping for help,
From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@e...>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 10:32:48 -0800
Subject: Re: A Full Thrust Font for Ship Design? (OFF TOPIC)
> At 11:17 PM -0800 12/16/97, Brian Bell wrote: Not quite Brian, only the Windows machines need to be restarted after installing a font.