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From: mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!miclon!miclon!nreadwin@uunet.uu.net  (Neil Readwin)
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Subject: Re: DEC font on Sun
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In article <0094AA98.EA04A160.5233@SECS.UCSC.EDU>, pitman@SECS.UCSC.EDU
(Mike Pitman) writes:
|> Decwindows apps. on a Sun 4 (X11R4) the apps. can't find their menu font

Copy DECW$EXAMPLES:FONTS.ALIAS to a suitable directory (I use
/usr/local/fonts/X11), run mkfontdir(1) and add that directory to
the font path.

xset fp+ /usr/local/fonts/X11; xset fp rehash

If you want to use xnews, then edit the aliases file ...

alias font
	becomes
/alias	/font	_FontDirectorySYN

Copy this to (say) /usr/local/fonts/NeWS/Synonyms.List, run bldfamily and
reset the font path (as shown above). Note that you cannot have a font
directory that only contains aliases, it must have at least one real font
in it (this seems to be a bug).

DECWindows apps don't work very well on the Suns. When using DECnet (and 
SUNlink/DNI) they have a tendency to hang or just reject all input.

The font aliases are not complete (NOTES looks *horrible* in a font with
proportional spacing).

Worst of all, some of them move the input focus between windows, which
is Evil and Rude. If I ever meet the person responsible for this I will,
errr, think of something appropriate to do to them. Neil.

 Phone: +44 71 528 8282  E-mail: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk
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