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From: dmk1@rosemary.cs.reading.ac.uk (David M. Kerrawn)
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Subject: Re: Problem with acm 2.0, an X air combat simulation
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Date: 7 Mar 91 16:47:31 GMT
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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,

>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 ?

>ant

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      Just change "*courier-bold-r-normal--17*" to "Courier-Bold17".
  I had the same problem and this worked. We are also running OpenWindows
  (v2). 

    Dave

   PS 
     Thanx to all those who responded to my request for the acm source
  especially Julian at Lancs from whom I obtained the source.