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- From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: X Font problem in x3270
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 07:44:45 GMT
- Organization: Dortmund University, Germany
- Lines: 26
- Sender: klute@tommy (Rainer Klute)
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1509hdINNfj4@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- References: <1992Jul20.103255@lssec.bt.co.uk> <1992Jul24.185350.1394@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <generous.712068390@nova>
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- Keywords: X11R5, Fonts, Suns
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- In article <generous.712068390@nova>, generous@sti.nasa.gov (Curtis
- Generous) writes:
- |> I am getting the error: 'Warning: Cannot convert string "3270" to type
- |> FontStruct' when
- |> running x3270. No characters appear on the window. The procedure used
- |> to install the
- |> 3270 font was (taken from the Makefile):
- |>
- |> bdftosnf -t 3270.bdf >3270.snf
- |> for i in 3270.snf; do\
- |> (set -x; install -c $i /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc);;\
- |> done
- |> mkfontdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
- |>
- |> The fonts.dir file was properly updated, and all permissions look okay.
- |> Any ideas?
-
- After you have installed the 3270 font in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc the X
- server does not know about it until you tell it to reread its font
- directories: xset fp rehash.
-
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