howland@tolkien.helios.nd.edu (Robert Howland) (09/21/90)
This might be a local problem, but I hope someone might be able to help. We have installed pretty much the standard X11R4 tape on our Sparc network. The /100dpi, /75dpi, and /mis subdirectories of /usr/lib/X11/fonts all have appropriate fonts.dir files listing approximately 200, 200, and 60 different fonts, yet we have problems accessing many of these. Looking a little further, it turns out that xlsfonts displays only 180 of the actual 460+ fonts installed. The obvious (if naive) question is why? What might be regarded as an inconvenience became more critical when we tried to implement the x3270 program on our system: Sparkes has generated his own font set emulating the IBM symbols, and the appropriate "3270.snf" font was successfully installed in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory. It seemed that the mkfontdir had not run, but we did this manually, and "3270" now appears in the fonts.dir file (though it does not have the full 14-field font specification on the right). But when we try to run the program itself, it complains about being unable to 'convert the string "3270" to type FontStruct' so using the "default", writes garbage to the client's screen, and then freezes. (It appears to be waiting for input, but cannot recognize anything sent to that window.) We seem unable to get the newly-installed font to be accessed by the program or to show up with xlsfonts; we even tried an xset rehash. The problems might be related to the titled query, and I hope someone out there might be able to direct us in the proper direction. Thanks in advance.