How to install new fonts?

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From: Alan Stebbens
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 02:20

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I have just obtained the marumoji fonts, and am trying to install them
on my DECstation 3100.  Perhaps I'm being dense and having _perused_ TFM,
but here's what I've tried:

a. Installed font file "maru14.bdf" in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local.
b. Ran "dxfc" on "maru14.bdf" to make "maru14.pcf"
c. Ran "dxmkfontdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local" to build "fonts.dir"
   with the new maru14.pcf in it; it seemed to work.
d. Verified that /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local is in the font path, by querying
   with "xset -q".
e. Set the font path, just in case the "fonts.dir" files are read only
   once, when the path is first set.
f. Queried again to be sure I didn't trip over something.

However, "xlsfonts" doesn't seem to find the fonts.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help. 
(Please reply via email unless you think your answer will benefit the
entire net).

Alan Stebbens <aks@hub.ucsb.edu>
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Alan Stebbens <aks@hub.ucsb.edu>

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From: aks@iti.org (Alan Stebbens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x
Subject: How to install new fonts?
Summary: This is a query on the correct procedure to install a new font
Keywords: Fonts X
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Date: 6 Jul 90 02:20:57 GMT
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