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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Openwindows font path problem
Message-ID: <25@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:50:35 GMT
References: <1991May23.192054.25891@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1122@redford.UUCP>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine
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In article <1122@redford.UUCP> bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258)) writes:
>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.

I strongly suspect that this is the problem.  To solve it:

1.  Use the convertfont utility distributed with OpenWindows to
    convert the .fb/.ff fonts into .bdf format.

2. Use the font compiler that came with the MIT distribution to convert the
   .bdf files into .snf format.

3. Install the fonts as specified in the MIT documentation.
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