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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X11 on 300 series font question
Message-ID: <1080126@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 19:34:48 GMT
References: <16631@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> Being more accustomed to the mit-style of X11 servers and fonts, I am
> unfamiliar with the cnf font format used in HPUX.  The problem I am
> having is simply how do I add a font? The font I have is in bdf format.  
> 
> In mit land, one simply runs bdftosnf, runs mkfontdir, and does an
> xset fp rehash.

This should work on HP as well. A cnf font is just a snf font that's
been run through compress. If you want to make a cnf font, just do

compress < font.snf > font.cnf

			-- Chan Benson
			HP Fort Collins
			chan@hpfcmi.hp.com