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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Fonts from R2 in R3
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Date: 23 Mar 89 13:23:58 GMT
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    Well Bob, you must of had some MIT undergrad student do this for you and
    he never told you what was involved.

No, we're a wee bit better than that.

    After running mkfontdir on the R2
    fonts the font.dir file will have an extra "." after every R2 font name.
    You need to delete this if you want the fonts to work.  I imagine there
    was some sort of specification change which was overlooked.

No specification change, just a simple bug in mkfontdir.  We fixed this way
back in November, I thought we sent the fix out, although looking now I don't
see it in xstuff.  We did make a comment back then:

    Right, there is a bug in mkfontdir that causes this when using "old"
    fonts that don't have a "FONT" property.  We'll probably post a fix
    at some point, but the correct thing to do is fix your fonts to have
    a correct FONT property.