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From: wollman@EMILY.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Potential installation feature
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Date: 11 Jan 91 03:27:12 GMT
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One potential feature I'd like to see in the Andrew installation
process is the ability to split up the font generation process into
two parts:  fdb -> bdf, and bdf -> (many different) snf.  We are
working in an enviromnent where Andrew will be used by people running
(at least) three different servers, each requiring its own
server-natural format for fonts.  It is something of a pain,
presently, to have to

	manually do that sed command
	run fdbbdf
	rlogin to one of the target machines
	run bdftosnf
	...lather, rinse, repeat...

It would be very nice if I could put
#define FONTS_TO_BDF_ONLY 1
in my site.h file, and then just have to do the last step manually.

-GAWollman

-- 
Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.