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From: zzassgl@mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
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Subject: Re: DEC VT1000 question: can it TELNET also?
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Date: 2 Aug 90 13:11:18 GMT
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In article <8259@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson) writes:
>be a font problem.  The manual doesn't say clearly but it looks like fonts
>are transfered via tftp on request if you set up the font paths properly.
>The other question I have is what is the proper font path?  The manual is
>extreamly vague.

The VT1000 requires specially formatted font files so I have been told.
If you have access to the X11r4 sources then there is a contributed
utility in the directory VT1000 that is supposed to be able to create
suitable files - so far I have not managed to get it to work on my
SYS V machine.


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