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From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff L. Bowden)
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Subject: font width problems with R3?
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Date: 21 Nov 88 04:42:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: jeff@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu's message of 10 Nov 88 20:08:17 GMT

In article <JEFF.88Nov10120817@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu> jeff@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) writes:
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<The xtrek released with R3 loses big when run on the R3 server (works just
>dandy on R2).  The game is playable but many of the text displays are in
<the wrong place and/or cut off.  It looks like the font width calculations
>are off.  Anyone have a fix?
<
>(Note:  I made a font.dir file in contrib/fonts/bdf/oldx11 and added it
<to my font path (this was necessary just to make it work)).

I posted the above a week or two ago with distribution "comp" and haven't seen
any response so I am reposting it.

Note also that I re-made everything with the R3 libraries and headers and it
still does the same thing (i.e. bad text displays on R3 servers and full
functionality on R2 servers)