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ID:F3 Porting DOS fonts to the AIX X Window System
Quarterdeck Technical Note #413
by Kris Williams & Mark Welinder
How to port DOS fonts to the AIX X Window System
This document explains the procedures for porting the DESQview/X DOS
fonts over to your AIX workstation. If you are or will be running
DOS applications to be displayed on your AIX workstation, it
would be more aesthetically correct to use the fixed DOS fonts
which where provided with DESQview/X.
To follow the steps covered in this document you will first need to have
installed DESQview/X, and configured your TCP/IP networking software on
both the AIX workstation, and the DOS DESQview/X PC. It is only
necessary to copy the font files to the AIX workstation once.
THE PROCEDURE
Is the X Window System configured on your AIX workstation? You
will need to determine whether or not the X Window System is installed
on your AIX workstation before continuing with this document.
Have you installed DESQview/X on your DOS PC? It is necessary to have
DESQview/X installed on the DOS machine before continuing with this
document. You may determine this by looking in the \DVX subdirectory
for the file DESQVIEW.DVO. If this file exists, DESQview/X is installed,
and you may continue. If not you will need to reference you DESQview/X
installation guide for before continuing.
CONVERTING THE FONT DESCRIPTION FILES
Before moving the PC fonts over to the AIX workstation, you will
need to convert the .bdf font files to .snf font files. This would be
done by typeing the following series of commands:
cd \DVX\BDF <─┘
..\bdftosnf pc8x8.bdf > pc8x8.snf
..\bdftosnf pc8x14.bdf > pc8x14.snf
..\bdftosnf pc8x16.bdf > pc8x16.snf
TRANSFERING THE FONT DEFINITION FILES
If you haven't yet configured FTP's PCTCP software you'll need to
reference the green PCTCP manual before continuing with this document.
You will need to switch to the \FTP subdirectory on the DOS machine
where the PCTCP software is configured. This may be done with the
following command:
C:\> cd \ftp <─┘
Then we'll use the FTP (File Transfere Protocol) utility to move the
font description files up to the AIX workstation. This can be
done with the following commands:
C:\FTP> ftp <─┘
ftp> login: <username> <─┘
ftp> password: <password> <─┘
ftp> mput \DVX\BDF\pc*.snf <─┘
ftp> quit <─┘
In the above command <username> would be your username on the AIX
workstation, and <password> is the password required for <username>
to successfully log on to the AIX workstation. After these commands
are performed, the font description files are ready to be aliased
and used by the X Window System on the AIX workstation.
ALIASING THE FONTS
AIX's X Window System lets you assign aliases to fonts so that
you can refer to a font without having to type it's full name.
To create a font alias, follow the following steps:
1. Log into the system as root.
2. Edit the file named fonts.list. Usually, this directory is called
either 75dpi, 100dpi or misc in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts subdirectory.
This directory must be in the search path.
3. Edit fonts.list so that it contains at least one line with the
following format:
aliasname fontname
In this line, aliasname is the name that is used to reference
the font, and fontname is the fullname of the font. So, to add the
pc fonts to this font directory, you will need to append the
following lines to the fonts.list file:
pc8x8.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
pc8x14.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
pc8x16.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
4. If you performed step 3 from an X session, you must reset the
server's font search path. You can do this either by stopping the
AIX X Window System and then restarting it, or by entering the
following command from and odtterm window:
xset fp rehash
If you performed step 3 directly from the operating system command line
(and the X Window System was not running), there is no need to reset the
server. The changes that you made to the fonts.list file are
incorporated automatically the next time you start the X Window System.
Copyright (C) 1991 by Quarterdeck Office Systems
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