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Re: Need help... trying to get xtrek to run.

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From: b-herman
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:50
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In article <5652@daily-planet.concordia.ca> stefanos@cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS
stefanos) writes:
>hi,
>
>(xtrekd seems to be working fine.)
>
>Not all fonts available on bizet:0.0.

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Stef.  I think you have a problem here. (ignore the error code)
I first put up xterk on a DECstation 3100 and tried to run it over the network
in 1990. (Just when x11 came out)   I had the same problem (but cannot remember
if the error code is the same).

Xtrek requires each system to have ALL THE FONTS this includes the fixed fonts,
the cursor fonts, and the Xtrek special fonts.

So if you can just try installing the fonts (if you haven't already) I think
that that should clear up your problem.  Unfortunately for me the DECstation
(Ultrix(tm)) did not have the same font base as the sun systems so I had to
tweak the code to use the DEC Fonts (and then took the dec fonts over to the
suns.... convoluted but it worked)  After that every think worked fine
(although it did look a little funny with the wrong fonts)

Good luck
Ben
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