Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

3572.0. "Fonts problem in VT1300" by TAV02::YAIR (Yair Tsoran, SWAS Israel) Thu Nov 01 1990 18:04

Hello,

I prepare a demo that consists of DECstation 5000/200 and VT1300 both running
applications from the DS5000. The VT1300 is booted from VMS machine, and then
run MSC/XL from the DS5000, setting DISPLAY to the VT1300.

XL works fine on the DS5000, but fails on the VT1300, since it can't find
the font "9x15". I've tried the following, but none of them worked:

1. Specifying font path to the DS5000, directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT where
   MIT fonts resides, and the file 9x15.pcf as well. Font path is specified to
   the VT1300 in the EWS$LIBRARY:vt1300.DAT file. Other font paths from the VMS
   were loaded but from the Ultrix it doesn't work: either the file
   specification syntax of mine was wrong, or something else.

2. Copying MIT fonts to VMS directory and specifying font path to it: Either the
   copy failed (in ASCII mode) or the file format was wrong (in image mode).

3. Taking one of DECW font and copying to file name 9X15.DECW$FONT didn't
   declare the font as its file name.

I'll appreciate any help on that problem.

Cross posted in EWS and DECWINDOWS notes files.

Yair Tsoran

    
    You need a font alias file - described someplace in this notesfile -
    which tells the server how to map the font names.  Or you need to
    compile the BDF source font into a .DECW$FONT.  The fontname is
    inside the font, the name of the file has no meaning.
    
    

Can someone give me a pointer to MIT bdf files so I can port them to VMS
(especially I need 9x15)?

Thanks,
Yair