| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I'm trying to use the Ultrix command
xterm -fn terminal18&
This works fine when I go from Ultrix host to Ultrix server, but when I
go to a VMS server, I get an error message saying:
could not open font terminal18; using server default
The font is in SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.75DPI]
Is there a way around this?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1315.1 | FLUME::dike | Mon Aug 21 1989 17:48 | 4 | ||
That's because Ultrix ships fonts that VMS doesn't. The fix is to use fonts that the server has. Jeff | |||||
| 1315.2 | Font name != file name | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Tue Aug 22 1989 12:14 | 17 |
Re: .0
The terminal18 font does exist on VMS; the file name is TERMINAL18.DECW$FONT.
However, the font name is:
-Bitstream-Terminal-Medium-R-Normal--18-180-75-75-C-110-ISO8859-1
(quite a mouthful, eh?) Fields are separated with hyphens, and you can
wild card fields using an asterisk. For example, the pattern DECterm
currently uses for its Big Font is:
-*-Terminal-*-*-*--18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
I'm surprised that "terminal18" works on Ultrix, let alone on VMS.
-- Bob
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| 1315.3 | MARX::FLEMING | Bo knows DECwindows | Thu Feb 08 1990 09:36 | 11 | |
Re. .2 The font I'd like to use looks like this on ULTRIX -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 On VMS it looks like this: -DEC-Terminal-Bold-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-C-8-ISO8859-1 Can I wildcard this so that I can find it on both platforms? Would it be easier just to check for VMS or ULTRIX and then XtSetArg the proper font? John... | |||||
| 1315.4 | Use the same names on VMS and Ultrix | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Thu Feb 08 1990 09:59 | 6 |
Re: .3 DECterm uses the same font names, with wild cards, on Ultrix and VMS. The font names are case insensitive. -- Bob | |||||