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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Reprogramming the function keys on the vt100 emulator
Message-ID: <583@sas.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 05:58:19 GMT
References: <577@sas.UUCP> <11036@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <11036@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.UUCP (James E. Conley) writes:
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|	We thought about doing this also, but it turned out that diskless
|nodes booting off of that node would end up being force to use the larger
|font and some people don't like it.  You can get around this by being fancy
|with variant links (vt100s --> `node_data/vt100s), but this is pretty ugly.

Um, well, yes, that would be unpleasent.  But I was talking about simply 
starting up vt100 myself in a directory with such a link.  If a local font
is available with the name, vt100 will use that rather then then one in
/sys/dm/fonts.  With the way vt100 works in sr9.7, if you start up one vt100 
session and then end it, the next session will use the same font as the 
previous (now ended) session, unless you sigp the vt100_server.  (This was
done so that later vt100's fire up super-fast.)  That way, you can start up
later vt100's in any directory you want, so long as you earlier fired up one
in a directory with the "vt100s" font you want.

I start up a vt100 in such a directory in my startup_sequence.  Of course, I 
start up eight csh's in my startup sequence already (among other things), so I 
don't mind the extra time . . .

(I might note parenthetically at this point that I am a user rather than an
administrator.  I believe I'm a fairly knowledgable user, but I lack the
[moral if not technical] authority to change /sys/dm/fonts anyway.)

Also, I don't see what's so disturbing about the idea of variant links.
Of course, it would be nicer to have the links point into ~/user_data,
since that way people get the fonts they are used to if they happen to
log into another node for some reason.  Only problem is that you have to
create a default font link in the user_data for every user from then on
out . . .
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