jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) (10/10/89)
I'm the one who posted some questions last week on suns. My first was on displaying all possible fonts on the screen at a time without logging in and out. Lots of people suggested 'suntools -Wt fontname'. One nice soul suggested I write a foreach(all fonts) loop to spawn these windows. Great idea, lousy implementation. After about 10 windows I started getting lots of messages in my console window, which was nicely hidden by then. Before I could do anything my Sun hung. Dead. Windows all over the screen and tantalizing fragments of messages in what I could see of the console window. Waited an hour for our system administer to come in fix it. (did you know there was a control-alt-delete for suns? there is). Evidently, I wasn't clear in my second question. I mentioned that out of 3 Suns, two have readable default system fonts and the third has a dinky one. I thought that as I had mentioned displaying all fonts on the screen, logging in/out to change them, etc, it would be clear what I meant by default system font. The system font is what the prompt I see right after booting the system is displayed in. It says simply 'login:'. In real small letters. Changing ~suntools and ~defaults only changes my font after I've logged in. So, I re-phrase my second question. How do I change the default system font? (you know, the one you see when nobody is logged in). I know how to change my font. The problem is we haven't figured out how to change the font size in our CASE tool, and the small font gets irritating real fast. Hopefully changing the system font will change the CASE font as well. One person mentioned we had a high resolution monitor on the third Sun. Looking at it, this is probably true. So how do I tell it to show me stuff in bigger letters? thanks in advance jim PS. Reading this article it sounds sarcastic or patronizing. It wasn't meant to be. But I would rather go home now that re-phrase it. Sorry.