[h-e-w] Using the fixedsys font in Emacs 21.1

[Feldman Yishai]

For quite a few years I have been happily using previous versions of NTEmacs (the latest is 20.7) with the fixedsys font.  I have now installed version 21.1, but it refuses to switch to this font, instead sticking to Courier.  The font does appear in the font-selection dialog (w32-select-font), which returns the string "-raster-Fixedsys-normal-r-normal-normal-12-90-96-96-c-*-iso8859-8", but it doesn't set the font either directly or via set-default-font.

Help!

Thanks,

        Yishai