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From: elric@imryrr.Eng.Sun.COM (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xtrek v6.0 on SS1+ under SunOS4.1 - setup problems
Keywords: Xtrek OpenWindows Sparc
Message-ID: <138682@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 90 21:20:00 GMT
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In article <26020@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes:
>In article <1105@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> mccoy@ils.nwu.edu writes:
>>In article <3435@crash.cts.com>, alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>>|> I'm trying to get Xtrek 6.0 to work under OpenWindows 1.0.1
>>|> on a SparcStation1+ SunOS4.1 and am running into the following
>>|> problems.
>>|> 1) bdftosnf is not supplied.
>>|> 2) imake is not supplied
>>|> 3) mkfontdir is not supplied
>>|> 4) libXmu.a is not supplied
>>Numbers 1-4 are because you no longer have the X sources around or the
>>configuration files.  If you plan on compiling _anything_ that you
>>find on the net, you have better get the config files (with imake,
>>imake templates, etc) and should have the sources.
>
>The MIT sources won't help you for 1 and 3, since the xnews server uses its 
>own weird font file format (inherited from NeWS, I believe). However, there
>are equivalents for bdftosnf and mkfontdir, called convertfont and bldfamily,
>respectively -- check out the man pages.
>
>The OpenWindows Xlib and Xt libs should be R4 compatible, so you should be
>able to compile Xmu from the MIT distribution. 

This is generally correct.  The X11/NeWS server uses a different format for its
compiled font files.  These are the ".fb" files found in $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts.
The bdftosnf and mkfontdir utilities are not used in the font compilation
process.

If you have a BDF file, compile it with

	% convertfont -b myfontfile.bdf

This will make a .fb file for you.  Then run 

	% bldfamily -d `pwd`

to update the Families.list file which helps the server understand what
fonts are there.

From this point, telling the server about the fonts is what you'd expect:

	% xset +fp `pwd`
	% xset rehash

libXmu isn't part of the OpenWindows release.  You'll need to ftp it from
somewhere.  The Xt and Xlib libraries are supplied and based on the R4 versions.


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