markf@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (10/19/89)
I've just installed the new beta andrew release on an HP 9000 model 350. So far things look pretty good (congrats to the andrew people). I've noticed a couple of font problems. Yesterday, when the big make finally was over, I ran ez and had garbage in the message and type in pane and in the main display pane (menus were fine). I pondered a bit and realized that I hadn't set the X server font path to point to the directory that the andrew fonts were in. I did an "xset -fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts", reran ez and viola everything looked fine. However, when I ran help I had garbage in a pop-up notifier that I get whenever I start up help (I later found out that the notifier is trying to tell me that I have "no help avaliable on 'tour'" (don't ask me why I get this notifier, I think it's another bug). The menus and selection panes looked fine. I also had problems with messages in the type in and main mail display panes (the other panes looked fine). After writing the previous paragraph I decided to try the programs again to check that I had the right information. Major weirdness - they all worked just fine. It is now a day later and things don't work again in pretty much the same way except now the pop-up notifier in help looks fine but the type in pane is messed up and ez is screwed up again. I've tried many inacantations with xset, but nothing seems to work. I'll try one more time now... Nope, it still doesn't work. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (10/19/89)
> Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 18-Oct-89 Some font problems > markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (1595) > I did an "xset -fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts", reran ez and viola everything > looked fine. Shouldn't that be "xset +fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts" - followed by "xset fp rehash" -- [from 'xset help'] To set the font path: fp= path[,path...] To restore the default font path: fp default To have the server reread font databases: fp rehash To remove elements from font path: -fp path[,path...] fp- path[,path...] To prepend or append elements to font path: +fp path[,path...] fp+ path[,path...] > (I later found out that the notifier is trying to tell me that I have > "no help avaliable on 'tour'" (don't ask me why I get this notifier, I > think it's another bug). Yes, it was a bug, and should be fixed as of our next patch (patch.004) - we had forgotten to set things up so that the 'tour' help file was installed - our appologies. Thanks for the report - glad to hear that it worked as well as it did (sans the font problem), and hopefully not too far off from working better. --fish -------------------- Adam Stoller Software Management ITC --------------------
markf@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (10/19/89)
>> > Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 18-Oct-89 Some font problems >> > markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (1595) >> >> > I did an "xset -fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts", reran ez and viola everything >> > looked fine. >> >> Shouldn't that be "xset +fp /sw/andrew/X11fonts" - followed by "xset fp >> rehash" -- [from 'xset help'] >> Sorry, that was a typo in my message. I did an "xset +fp ... ". Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu