font path ?

[Grant McDorman]

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According to Heiner Amthauer:
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> Hi there !
>=20
> ...snip...
> > 'misc' directory. 75dpi can be left out to save space (although it's=20
> not a
> > good idea); misc is essential. If you cannot get at least misc installe=
d, or
> > can't find it elsewhere, you're probably stuck.
> ...snap...
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> Ok, again my question: I'm trying to run vncserver on sun4c,=20
> SunOS 4.1.4 and OpenWindows 3.0 . vnc says: failed to set font=20
> path. Someone mentioned ( see above ) the I do need the default=20
> font "misc" installed. However, OpenWin 3.0 does not seem to=20
> include any font called misc. What else can I do ?

No, not the font called 'misc'; the font _directory_ called 'misc' (which
should contain, in the text file fonts.alias, some entry like

fixed   "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1"

which defines the default font 'fixed'. If this is lacking, the server can't
start.

You can perhaps look in the various server font directories for a
'fonts.alias' file containing that line, and set your font path to only that
directory.

If I recall your original message correctly, though, you have a very strange
installation. An alterative might be to look at ftp://ftp.x.org, where
you'll find the unpacked X distribution, and fetch the font directories
(which will contain .bdf files and the fonts.* files in some form); your
OpenWindows bin directory should contain a program called 'bdftopcf' or
'bdftosnf' which can be used to convert the ASCII distribution format to a
binary format the server can understand. You then create the tree - 100dpi,
75dpi, misc, and any others - and fonts.dir and fonts.alias in those
directories.

Alternatively, if you can find a Sun system of the same flavour - Sparc or
Intel - which does have the correct font tree, you can copy it from there.

Don't ask for the fonts to be mailed, though - they are *HUGE*.

--=20

Grant McDorman <grant "at" isgtec.com>, Senior Software Developer
ISG Technologies, Inc.  <URL:http://www.isgtec.com>
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada


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