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In a message of <Sep 03 12:14> (Jeff Suttor) writes to All:

 JS>Can PMX be told to use a font server to satisfy font requests?

 JS>RTFMing talks only about 'font path' for PMX & XSET.

 JS>I would like to run x clients on remote machines that use unique fonts
 JS>and don't want to get in the business of copying, comipling, maintaining, 
 JS>etc. application fonts.

   I only load the parts of TCP/IP on the workstation that it needs to get 
started. That includes the three device drivers, cntrl.exe, a setup.cmd file,
and some files in the ETC directory. Everything else is on a LAN accessed 
server, including the remaining TCP/IP executables and all the X11 fonts. As 
long as the user logs onto the LAN before starting TCP/IP PMX doesn't know 
the difference. When PMX starts I set the log path to a local drive, but other 
than that the startup is standard stuff.
  
   The LAN accessed server is made available using OS/2 LAN server/requester. 
If you wanted to put the fonts on an NFS mounted drive you'd have to have a
lot more stuff on your workstation (enough to get NFS up and running and get
the drive mounted), but given that NFS was alive and well before you start 
PMX you should be able to put those same fonts on a NFS accessed drive. The
fonts are pointed to by an environment variable and as long as the drive
and path are valid and the appropriate directory structure is built there 
it ought to work.

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