[comp.windows.x] Large fonts crashing OpenWindows 2

gjw@phad.anu.oz.au (Graham Williams) (11/16/90)

Hardware: SPARCstation SLC (8meg)
Software: SunOS 4.1, OpenWindows 2.0, xnews, olwm, xfd, xtex

On a number of occasions I have crashed COMPLETELY out of OpenWindows.
On each occasion it seems to have had something to do with fonts.
Indeed, using xfd on a particular font will now always allow me to
very smartly exit OpenWindows :-).  This particular font is, I guess
quite large, being the Metafont cminch converted to the appropriate
font format for OpenWindows for use with xtex (2.16.1).  Not many of
the other fonts that I have converted exhibit this behaviour, so I can
only guess that it is the size of the font that causes the problem.
Is there any wisdom amongst readers of this news group regarding such
a problem and a work-around?
--
Graham Williams, gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au
Dept Computer Science, Australian National University,
GPO Box 4, Canberra, 2601, Australia.
Phone = +61 6 249 4625 (Office) Fax = +61 6 249 0010