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- ID:F3 Porting DOS fonts to the AIX X Window System
- Quarterdeck Technical Note #413
- by Kris Williams & Mark Welinder
-
- How to port DOS fonts to the AIX X Window System
-
- This document explains the procedures for porting the DESQview/X DOS
- fonts over to your AIX workstation. If you are or will be running
- DOS applications to be displayed on your AIX workstation, it
- would be more aesthetically correct to use the fixed DOS fonts
- which where provided with DESQview/X.
-
- To follow the steps covered in this document you will first need to have
- installed DESQview/X, and configured your TCP/IP networking software on
- both the AIX workstation, and the DOS DESQview/X PC. It is only
- necessary to copy the font files to the AIX workstation once.
-
- THE PROCEDURE
-
- Is the X Window System configured on your AIX workstation? You
- will need to determine whether or not the X Window System is installed
- on your AIX workstation before continuing with this document.
-
- Have you installed DESQview/X on your DOS PC? It is necessary to have
- DESQview/X installed on the DOS machine before continuing with this
- document. You may determine this by looking in the \DVX subdirectory
- for the file DESQVIEW.DVO. If this file exists, DESQview/X is installed,
- and you may continue. If not you will need to reference you DESQview/X
- installation guide for before continuing.
-
- CONVERTING THE FONT DESCRIPTION FILES
-
- Before moving the PC fonts over to the AIX workstation, you will
- need to convert the .bdf font files to .snf font files. This would be
- done by typeing the following series of commands:
-
- cd \DVX\BDF <─┘
- ..\bdftosnf pc8x8.bdf > pc8x8.snf
- ..\bdftosnf pc8x14.bdf > pc8x14.snf
- ..\bdftosnf pc8x16.bdf > pc8x16.snf
-
- TRANSFERING THE FONT DEFINITION FILES
-
- If you haven't yet configured FTP's PCTCP software you'll need to
- reference the green PCTCP manual before continuing with this document.
-
- You will need to switch to the \FTP subdirectory on the DOS machine
- where the PCTCP software is configured. This may be done with the
- following command:
-
- C:\> cd \ftp <─┘
-
- Then we'll use the FTP (File Transfere Protocol) utility to move the
- font description files up to the AIX workstation. This can be
- done with the following commands:
-
- C:\FTP> ftp <─┘
- ftp> login: <username> <─┘
- ftp> password: <password> <─┘
- ftp> mput \DVX\BDF\pc*.snf <─┘
- ftp> quit <─┘
-
- In the above command <username> would be your username on the AIX
- workstation, and <password> is the password required for <username>
- to successfully log on to the AIX workstation. After these commands
- are performed, the font description files are ready to be aliased
- and used by the X Window System on the AIX workstation.
-
- ALIASING THE FONTS
-
- AIX's X Window System lets you assign aliases to fonts so that
- you can refer to a font without having to type it's full name.
- To create a font alias, follow the following steps:
-
- 1. Log into the system as root.
-
- 2. Edit the file named fonts.list. Usually, this directory is called
- either 75dpi, 100dpi or misc in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts subdirectory.
- This directory must be in the search path.
-
- 3. Edit fonts.list so that it contains at least one line with the
- following format:
-
- aliasname fontname
-
- In this line, aliasname is the name that is used to reference
- the font, and fontname is the fullname of the font. So, to add the
- pc fonts to this font directory, you will need to append the
- following lines to the fonts.list file:
-
- pc8x8.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
- pc8x14.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
- pc8x16.snf -quarterdeck-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
-
- 4. If you performed step 3 from an X session, you must reset the
- server's font search path. You can do this either by stopping the
- AIX X Window System and then restarting it, or by entering the
- following command from and odtterm window:
-
- xset fp rehash
-
- If you performed step 3 directly from the operating system command line
- (and the X Window System was not running), there is no need to reset the
- server. The changes that you made to the fonts.list file are
- incorporated automatically the next time you start the X Window System.
-
- Copyright (C) 1991 by Quarterdeck Office Systems
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