From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX" 28-MAY-1992 07:06:41.34
To:	info-vax@kl.sri.com
CC:	
Subj:	Re: DECwindows rejects request for font "default 8x13"

In article <1992May24.005228.28260@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, bdr@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
(brian.d.reed) writes:
|
|>First you need the font dir's on VMS:
|>
|>$mkfntdir:==$decw$mkfontdir
|>$mkfntdir sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_100dpi]decw$font_directory.dat
|>   same for .common], etc.
|>
|>For an alias file, create a file called
|>  decw$font_alias.dat in the subdir above you want to alias to--
|>i.e, in the .common] dir for common font aliases, etc.
|>
|>This file has the format:
|>
|>alias-font-name   decw-font-name
|>
|>
|>You will have to start up decw again for this to take effect.
You can hack the X11r4  (I haven't tried the X11r5) xset utility quite easily
to work on VMS.  Then instead of restarting DECwindows, you can do a
xset fp +  sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_100dpi]
xset fp rehash

This will  append the font path and reread the fonts.alias files.
The VMS DECwindows fonts.alias file is DECW$FONT_ALIAS_COMMON.DAT.
I think sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_100dpi] should already exist., just
add fonts, do the mkfontdir, and you can add aliases to the alias file.
I you add a new directory that everyone will use regularly, you will want
to modify the decwindow startup file that contains the DECW$FONT logical
to specify the default font directories.

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                            University of Oklahoma

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