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From: moraes@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Mark Moraes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XTroff and DECwindows
Message-ID: <89Dec8.191314est.2276@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 00:13:01 GMT
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In comp.windows.x you write:
>There seems to be some problems with fonts, however. Even after re-installing
>the fonts (and I believe) re-compiling them, xtroff crashes the DECWindows
>X server.  I haven't been doing the installation myself, so I may be 
>fuzzy on some of the details.

>What I am interested in, though, is if anybody has had any success in bringing
>Xtroff up under DECwindows and what was involved to do that.

Make sure you compile the fonts with DEC's bdftosnf, not with the MIT
one. (Apparently, DEC seems to have changed the snf format slightly --
our Vaxen running MIT R3 and DS3100s running DECWindows can't share
the same snf. sigh)

xtroff does compile and work on the DS3100s we have (Ultrix 3.1) using
the includes and libraries (Xaw, Xmu, Xt, X11) compiled and installed
from the MIT R3 distribution, and the DEC bdftosnf and server.

Try xlsfonts 'devpsc*' to see if the fonts actually exist, if they do,
try xfd to display them. If these two steps don't work, er, well, um.
(Xtroff users might be relieved to note that the version on the R4 tape
won't require this font munging, thanks to some nifty code from Dave
Cahlander)