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From: Scott Cartier <scartier@vmlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: font routine hangs
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:58:14 -0700
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Do you have enough packet space allocated?  Since you're using one 
sprite per character, if you're trying to display a lot of text it could
overrun your packet area.  Try increasing it to some ungodly large 
number to see if that fixes it.

Scott


> the hang is caused by the following line:
> 
> GsSortFastSprite(&spriteInfo,&world_ordering_table[output_buffer_index], 0);
> 
> although I still have no ide why???