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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm default font
Message-ID: <9012132057.AA21039@islanders.>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:57:12 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> |> 
> |> line switches like -fn to set the font.  I set my default font in
> |> .Xdefaults as:
>  
> |> XTerm.vt100.font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> |> 
> |
> 
> Does anybody know if there is a good reason for Sun using such a
> brain-dead method of specifying font names in OpenWindows?  What 

	This naming convention is derived from X Window (actually ISO),
	so in all fairness, don't blame it on Sun.

> was wrong with  the MIT release's method of using a fonts.alias 
> file so that you could refer to this font by a simple name of 
> say... courR14?
> 

	Nothing prevents you from doing this for OW.


	Frank G.