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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  NCD fonts
Message-ID: <9011040546.AA01926@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 4 Nov 90 05:46:34 GMT
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> How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server?

I don't know, but...

> Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash',
> the fonts never get loaded.  But when using a SUN workstation and
> using the same commands, it works beautifully.

The font path is interpreted by the *server*.  You have to make sure
that the string you hand to xset is something that the server can deal
with.  When running on your Sun, the server interprets the font path as
a list of directory names, and it very conveniently happens that the
server is using the same filesystem as you are, so everything is
deceptively straightforward.

> Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for
> loading of user fonts?

I don't know how NCD boxes get their fonts, but I suspect that you
either aren't passing the string in the correct form (perhaps the NCD
doesn't use UNIX-style paths for its font path?) or else the NCD has a
different filesystem viewpoint from yours (perhaps it gets the fonts
from a different machine from the one your directories are on?).

> p.s.  If anyone knows any information about my problem, please mail
>       directly to me.  Thanks.

But you don't give an address.  I'm making a guess from the headers,
but I'm not too sanguine about the propects for its getting to you....

					der Mouse

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