USERISRA@UALTAMTS.BITNET (Mark Israel) (08/17/88)
(1) When the Iris 3030 first boots up, a really beautiful
font appears on the console screen. This is replaced fairly
early in the booting procedure by "iris10.fnt". The original
font does not appear in /usr/lib/gl2/fonts, and I imagine it's
defined in the hardware. Does anyone know of a way of re-loading
it?
(2) Is there a function I can call from a program which will cause
the Iris console to exit mex? I have a program that needs mex to
run, and I would like it to call ismex() at the beginning, start up
mex, run, and then if the user wasn't in mex at the beginning, exit
mex. At the moment I have to leave it to the user to exit mex,
because I can't figure out a way to make the program do it.
(3) We are running version GL2-W3.6 on our Iris 3030 and have the
same version of Unipress Emacs. When I try to run Emacs from
the console and when not in mex, Emacs seems to think my screen
is much bigger than it actually is. When my font is default.fnt,
the top of my screen displays the middle of line 14, and there is
no way of windowing back to the first 13 lines. The smaller the
font I use, the greater the number of hidden lines. The "-L" option
doesn't seem to do anything; and "set-screen-lines" doesn't help,
because it causes the screen to be truncated at the bottom rather
than at the top! I have no problem whatever when using emacs from
within mex, or from a remote terminal. Has anyone out there
encountered a similar problem, or have an idea how I might fix it?
Mark Israel
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