Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: DEC clients running under MIT X11R4?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.180508.28048@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
References: <1991Feb14.160319.2761@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 18:05:08 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.160319.2761@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> bqsy1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>       We recently built X11R4 on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1,
>using DEC's cc. Everything went well with no reported compilation or
>linking errors. However, we have run into the following problem - we seem
>to be unable to run the dx* binaries under X11R4. Any attempt to run these
>produces a core dump.

The DEC applications don't behave well if they can't find their fonts.
Some programmer probably didn't check the return codes on the font
open calls, so they core dump.  Probably the same person who programmed
Ultrix uucico and uux :-).  Try that font alias file that maps DEC font
names to MIT font names and see if you get farther.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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