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Thanks to all who responded to my question about displaying
Sun fonts on a DECstation.


Justin Young suggested installing X11R5 - We didn't do this but
my guess is that it would be a good idea anyway.

Lucio Chiappetti suggested using a fonts.alias file to use
a resident font instead of the missing one.  This seems like it
would be a good solution if the needed font is not available.
An example of this is given in the man pages for dxmkfontdir.

Luca Sgheri and Anne Shaw suggested copying the necessary fonts to the DEC
and installing them. This is what I did - it turned out
to be surprisingly easy:

1) ftp'd the .pcf.Z files from /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
on the Sun to the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/100dpi directory on the DEC.

2) Uncompressed them

3) ran dxmkfontdir in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/100dpi directory.  
 This generates the fonts.dir table of fonts in that directory.

4) added this directory to the font path:
 xset +fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/100dpi

			Thanks Again!

				Rod




On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Rod Swift wrote:

> I'm not able to remote login from a DEC 5000/240, (Ultrix 4.2A)
> to a Sun Sparc (Solaris 2.4) and set the display
> to the DEC - applications that use the default Sun fonts
> are not able to run when the display is set to the
> DEC.  I get the following error:
> 
> XView warning: Cannot load font set
'-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-
> *' (Font package)
> XView warning: Unable to open default font set
> 
> Other applications, such as xterm which do not use these
> fonts run fine.  
> 
> Do I need to actually install certain fonts on the DEC, or 
> is there some way to alias these troublesome fonts
> to fonts that exist on the DEC? 

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