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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: mapping decwindows to MIT fonts
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.160318.7153@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 3 Dec 90 16:03:18 GMT
References: <69868@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <69868@bu.edu.bu.edu> eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric A Pearce) writes:
>
> I want to run the X11R4 server from MIT, but continue to run decwindows
> applications without complaints about missing fonts.    
> Does someone have a .Xdefaults to do this?   Or are you able to use the
> pcf fonts in some way?  The idea is to minimize the disruption to 
> users of dxcalendar, etc. 
>

Jordan Hayes has a program that will extract fonts from a server and create
the bdf file, which you can then compile to the snf font for the MIT server.  
We used this with our DecStations quite successfully.

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
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