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From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Problem with acm 2.0, an X air combat simulation
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.083507.6509@resam.dk>
Date: 19 Feb 91 08:35:07 GMT
References: <45814@mips.mips.COM> <1991Feb18.040302.1425@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
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In <1991Feb18.040302.1425@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes:
>riley@mips.COM (Riley Rainey) writes:
>>The 2.0 release of acm, a jet combat simulation for X, is now available
>>for anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu.  The compressed tar file is
>>named contrib/acm.2.0.tar.Z.

>Hi Guys,
Hey there is girl/ladies here too!!!  :-)

>Just fetched this and compiled this.  Only problem is that the machine I am
>trying to display it on is running OpenWindows (v2) and acm has problems
>with the fonts.  The exact message I get is ...
>    [brolga /home/ant 35] acm brolga
>    acm: display goanna:0.0 doesn't know font *courier-bold-r-normal--17*

>Any ideas on how I can get around this ?  Also, am I going to have lots of
>problems like this with fonts etc if I move completely to OpenWindows
>(currently only goanna is running OW on a trial basis) ?  If I have the
>X11 fonts as well can I use them ?

The documentation is no help but after some tampering around in the
code I found out that the only file that need changes was all the
Makefiles! Write -DSunOSPlatform somewhere so it becomes a parameter
to cc everytime a file is compiled and remove the "-systype bsd43".

Leif Andrew


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