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Help with tracking what file a program is trying to open #5223

Closed TeddyTheMan closed 4 weeks ago

TeddyTheMan commented 1 month ago

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I am running an old engineering program (to access an old design) that seems to be searching for a specific .FON file to run. It uses it for a graphical output. I've been trying to jury-rig it to work (by giving it a directory with all the .FON files I would expect it to be trying to use) but keep getting told that it can't find the font it's looking for. Documentation for the thing is not great. Is there a way to track which font the program is trying to open? I've been trying to play around with the debugger but honestly don't know where to start. Any help would be appreciated!

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maron2000 commented 4 weeks ago

You can try enable logging with files=true option. Consult explanation in the .conf file or the help screen of configuration tools for details.

TeddyTheMan commented 4 weeks ago

You can try enable logging with files=true option. Consult explanation in the .conf file or the help screen of configuration tools for details.

Thank you, that was helpful and was exactly what I was trying to do. Unfortunately, it appears the program finds all .FON files and tries to open every one sequentially (rather than a specific one) and does some sort of iternal check to see if its suitable (non-loggable after turning everything on) . Looks like I may be stuck, absent finding some archive of the actual .FON files used in Windows 3.0.