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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Andrew Under OpenWindows
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Date: 12 Jan 91 03:46:27 GMT
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We are running it under OpenWindows 2.0, no problems, once you have the
fonts converted.  Here's a script which will turn a directory full of
.bdf font files into a directory suitable for OpenWindows -- it assumes
that the OpenWindows binaries are on your path:

    #!/bin/csh
    # Usage:  convertfontdir dirname
    #
    cd $1
    foreach font (`ls *.bdf`)
        set fontname = `egrep '^FONT ' $font | sed -e 's/FONT //'`
        convertfont -n $fontname -f 200 $font
    end
    awk '{printf("(%s) (%s) _FontDirectorySYN\n",$1,$2)}' <fonts.alias
    >Synonyms.list
    bldfamily -f 200

In terms of performance, the OpenWindows server, xnews, seems to be
*much* better than MIT X11 for graphics operations *if* one has a GX
board, but about the same otherwise.  The X request that Andrew uses to
draw text (PolyText8) does not seem to be optimized in the xnews server
any better than in the MIT server.  I've heard grumbling about the speed
of input dispatching under xnews; window dragging is notoriously slow;
some NeWS operations still crash the server.  But it is commercially
supported, so these are presumably fixable problems.

Bill