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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

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

2977.0. "FONT.ALIAS????" by TROA09::GILBERT () Thu Jun 21 1990 14:25

    A customer has heard the somewhere within Digital is a file used
    with DECwindows fonts.  He said it had to do with our font file
    names being uppercase and something trying to access them expecting
    lowercase names (no, I can't be any more vague).
    
    Has anyone heard of the file FONT.ALIAS?  If so,
    
    1. where can I get a copy
    2. what does it do
    
    Thanks,
    Peter
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2977.1fonts.alias in note 2509STAR::VATNEPeter Vatne, VMS DevelopmentThu Jun 21 1990 15:408
See note 2509 for a complete description of the fonts.alias file.
Customers can obtain this file from the CSC.  It will be available
as an example file in VMS V5.4.

Note that there is no problem anywhere in the world with the case
of font names, as the protocol explicitly says that uppercase and
lowercase do not matter (see pages 391 to 398 of "X Window System
C Library and Protocol Reference" by Scheifler, Gettys, and Newman).