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From: dob@inel.GOV (Dave Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECWindows fonts
Message-ID: <9103141833.AA17269@mijen.inel.gov>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:33:26 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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   From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
   Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
   Date: 14 Mar 91 01:00:43 GMT
   Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com
   Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory

   In article <9103131843.AA08142@SLCS.SLB.COM>, hansen@scr.slb.COM (Ove Hansen) writes:
   |> How can I get my Sun Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows to use DECWindows fonts?

   The easy solution to your problem is to get the DECwindows fonts.alias
   file from export.lcs.mit.edu.  This allows DECwindows applications to
   run on any server supporting the MIT X11R4 fonts.

   -- 
   Ken Lee
   DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
   Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
   uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee

regretably, OpenWindows uses an entirely different scheme than fonts.alias
and freinds.  i recently tried 'decoding' their font scheme, and can truly
say that it's quite different.  of course, the decwindows fonts.alias file
is a good starting place.  I'd imagine that anyone who can provide
'patches' to one or more of the files listed below (perhaps the directory
will be different) will be doing a great public service.

regards,
dlb

-rw-r--r--  1 root        10967 Feb 28 15:20 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Compat.list 
-rw-rw-r--  1 root        39599 Feb 28 15:32 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Families.list 
-rw-rw-r--  1 root        53396 Feb 28 15:21 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Synonyms.list 

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