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From: hansen@scr601.sinet.slb.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DECWindows fonts on OpenWindows server
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Date: 28 Mar 91 18:35:40 GMT
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From:	HANSEN@PSI%SCR601@MRGATE@SNDRTR
To:	"xpert%expo.lcs.mit.edu"@M_CSNET@MRGATE@SNDRTR

Two weeks ago I asked on the net how to work around the problem I had when
I tried to display DECWindows applications running on a VAX on my Sparc 1
running OpenWindows, when the applications would either crash or give error
messages when starting up because they couldn't find the correct fonts. The
two answers I got did indeed solve my problem, and I thought other people could 
be interested in how this is done:

STEP 1: Get the DECWindows_on_X11R4_font.alias file from export.lcs.mit.edu
(18.30.0.238) and add this to the alias file.

STEP 2: Add the following fonts to the Synonyms.list file (with current
directory "/usr/openwin/lib/fonts"): 

(-bigelow & holmes-menu-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-p-77-iso8859-1)    
/Helvetica-Bold _FontDirectorySYN
(-bigelow & holmes-menu-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-p-92-iso8859-1)    
/Helvetica-Bold _FontDirectorySYN

and rebuild the file running "/usr/openwin/bin/bldfamily"


1001 thanks to Alfredo De Regil Salinas and Ken Lee for their help.

Ove Hansen  (hansen@scr.slb.com)