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- From: Mahoney@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Mahoney)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: PMX use a font server ?
- Message-ID: <100.2AA6FD18@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 20:26:21 PDT
- Organization: The Emerald Isle BBS, Tucson, AZ (602) 749-8638
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- In a message of <Sep 03 12:14> (Jeff Suttor) writes to All:
-
- JS>Can PMX be told to use a font server to satisfy font requests?
-
- JS>RTFMing talks only about 'font path' for PMX & XSET.
-
- JS>I would like to run x clients on remote machines that use unique fonts
- JS>and don't want to get in the business of copying, comipling, maintaining,
- JS>etc. application fonts.
-
- I only load the parts of TCP/IP on the workstation that it needs to get
- started. That includes the three device drivers, cntrl.exe, a setup.cmd file,
- and some files in the ETC directory. Everything else is on a LAN accessed
- server, including the remaining TCP/IP executables and all the X11 fonts. As
- long as the user logs onto the LAN before starting TCP/IP PMX doesn't know
- the difference. When PMX starts I set the log path to a local drive, but other
- than that the startup is standard stuff.
-
- The LAN accessed server is made available using OS/2 LAN server/requester.
- If you wanted to put the fonts on an NFS mounted drive you'd have to have a
- lot more stuff on your workstation (enough to get NFS up and running and get
- the drive mounted), but given that NFS was alive and well before you start
- PMX you should be able to put those same fonts on a NFS accessed drive. The
- fonts are pointed to by an environment variable and as long as the drive
- and path are valid and the appropriate directory structure is built there
- it ought to work.
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