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From: markf@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Some font problems
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Date: 18 Oct 89 22:23:22 GMT
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I've just installed the new beta andrew release on an HP 9000 model
350. So far things look pretty good (congrats to the andrew people).
I've noticed a couple of font problems. 

Yesterday, when the big make finally was over, I ran ez and had
garbage in the message and type in pane and in the main display pane
(menus were fine).  I pondered a bit and realized that I hadn't set
the X server font path to point to the directory that the andrew fonts
were in. I did an "xset -fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts", reran ez and viola
everything looked fine.  However, when I ran help I had garbage in a
pop-up notifier that I get whenever I start up help (I later found out
that the notifier is trying to tell me that I have "no help avaliable
on 'tour'" (don't ask me why I get this notifier, I think it's another
bug). The menus and selection panes looked fine. I also had problems
with messages in the type in and main mail display panes (the other
panes looked fine).

After writing the previous paragraph I decided to try the programs
again to check that I had the right information. Major weirdness -
they all worked just fine. It is now a day later and things don't work
again in pretty much the same way except now the pop-up notifier in
help looks fine but the type in pane is messed up and ez is screwed up
again. I've tried many inacantations with xset, but nothing seems to
work. I'll try one more time now... Nope, it still doesn't work.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?


Mark Friedman
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
545 Technology Sq.
Cambridge, Ma. 02139

markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu