Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Unix X servers that can use Decnet Message-ID: <724@auto-trol.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 90 15:35:22 GMT References: <7784@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <9601@cbmvax.commodore.com> <4127@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver Lines: 25 In article <4127@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes: >I think a more important question than whether the server supports DECnet or >not is whether the server has the fonts that DEC uses for its DECwindows >applications. What are the rules about copying those fonts to foreign servers? On the "private" font issue. Since it does not seem likely that vendors will provide their "private" fonts in the .bdf format, did ANYONE try to write a "reverse-engineering" program ? I mean an X utility that loads a font, displays it character-by character into a bitmap, and generates the .bdf definition. Having a toool, it would be fairly easy to distribute any font to any server (even VMS X server uses .bdf). What about legal issues - would anyone consider using such a utility illegal ??? (The primary purpose of the utility is to allow a "private" utility to properly display on "other" servers, thus increasing it's usability. However, the side effect is that a lousy vendor will be able to use better fonts...) -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Martin Brunecky marbru@auto-trol.COM (303) 252-2499 {...}ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru Auto-trol Technology Corp. 12500 North Washington St., Denver, CO 80241-2404