| Hello again,
After reading my base note in the cold light of day, I realise that it's a bit short on
information, so here goes:-
I built the R4 server on a VAXstation 3500 running ULTRIX V3.1 (I first de-installed *all*
of the DECwindows subsets). The VAXstation has a 4-plane greyscale video board. The server
works O.K. I copied the necessary images to run a DECterm from another ULTRIX V3.1
machine and cranked one up. I got the following error messages
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-MENU-MEDIUM-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO
8859-1" to type FontList, using fixed font
Can't find font -*-Terminal-*-*-*--*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
Can't find font -*-Terminal-*-*-*--*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
Can't find font -*-Terminal-Medium-*-Narrow--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-1
The DECterm does come up O.K. though and is reasonably usable. I copied the MENU and
terminal fonts from a V3.1 machine and tried to make the server look for them on startup (
I renamed them from *.dwf to *.snf). This did not work. I ran mkfontdir in the directory
containing the new fonts but it said that the fonts were of an invalid format.
Any suggestions as to how I can install the fonts so that the server will load
them?
Many thanks,
Rich Amos.
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The following USENET article came from someone in a situation similar
to the base noter. We are going to get a lot of flack with our fonts
policy. It looks like a severe setback for X interoperability.
Kris...
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Article 18673 of comp.windows.x
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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DEC fonts (Re: Unix X servers that can use Decnet)
Summary: frivolous comments about DEC fonts.
Message-ID: <9670@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 19:06:05 GMT
References: <7784@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <MELLON.90Feb2122048@zayante.pa.dec.com> <9601@cbmvax.commodore.com> <4127@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <4127@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes:
>I think a more important question than whether the server supports DECnet or
>not is whether the server has the fonts that DEC uses for its DECwindows
>applications.
Actually, I like the DEC applications better without the DEC fonts. I'm
running MIT X11R4 on my DECstation, with the DEC menu font aliased to
times_roman12. All the DEC applications run (including the VAX/VMS ones
over DECnet), and I think they look better than they did when I was running
the DEC server with all the DEC fonts.
-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University
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