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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Openwindows font path problem
Message-ID: <1122@redford.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 13:55:13 GMT
References: <1991May23.192054.25891@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1991May23.192054.25891@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> raja@cpswh.cps.msu.edu writes:
>
>We have no problem doing this for the MIT 
>X server (using "xset fp+ ...." and 
>"xset fp rehash").  However, I'm unable 
>to get the Openwindows xnews server to 
>access ANY non-Openwindows font directory 
>(in fact it seem to look in $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts 
>and *nowhere* else!)

First, have you done a xset -q to confirm your fontpath change?

If so then the only thing I can think of is:
xnews only understands the Sun font format (.fb, .ff), not .snf format
that X11R4 uses.

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