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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Help! Font mismatch between X11R4 and X11R3
Keywords: Fonts, Sun OS, Ultix
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Date: 21 Apr 91 16:53:59 GMT
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In article <muts.672171193@fysaj> muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>Throw out X11R3 (I don't understand why that is still being supplied) and 
>install X11R4 from mit which is available free, has ultrix 3.1 support
>and does not have the terrible dx.. dec specific programs.
>The only thing you have to change for ultrix 4.1 is the location
>of two include files in the server code (easy to find) and fill in a macro
>omitting the (int) typecast which would otherwise appear on the lhs of

Note that the MIT X11R4 server will not run on systems using the PX, PXG
or PXG turbo graphics boards, so the above may not be the solution.

The DEC servers use a different font format than the MIT servers (pcf vs.
snf), so if you have fonts you need to move, the easiest way is to
get the bdf font format files and 1) use them with the DEC server, or
2) convert the bdf to pcf with dxfc (and make sure to run mkfontdir so
the server sees them).  I believe there are some utilities on
export.lcs.mit.edu to convert snf fonts back to bdf if you don't have
bdf files for the fonts.


Mike Iglesias
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