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From: diaz@venice.sedd.trw.com (Phillip Diaz)
Subject: MIT X Symposium
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:19:29 GMT


	Need info on the upcoming MIT X Symposium. Can someone send me
	information? 

			Thanks in advance,

 				Phil Diaz
From: kristine@key.COM (Kristine Nam)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xview: accelerator keys
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:39:56 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA

I'm having problems implementing window-level accelerators in a xview application.
Following the example of accelerating a PANEL_BUTTON provided XView Programming
Manual(Volume 7 of O'Reilly, pg 145-146), I added the following line of code:

	xv_set(frame,
	       FRAME_ACCELERATOR, "q", quitWindow, quit_button,
	       NULL);

According to the book, the function quitWindow() should get called when
'q' is pressed combined with the Meta key.  But that isn't happening.
It just beeps when I do so.

I've also tried to implement it using FRAME_X_ACCELERATOR instead:

	xv_set(frame,
	       FRAME_X_ACCELERATOR, XK_Return, quitWindow, quit_button,
	       NULL);
However, this doesn't work either.

Can someone also recommend any books on XView besides O'Reilly's Volume 7?

Direct replies to kristine@key.amdahl.com will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Kristine Nam
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:29:34 GMT

wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:
: Hi there,
: 
: We are on a LAN running Novell netware 3.11.  We are connected to the
: outside world (campus ethernet) through a bridge from this. The SUN
: (down the hall from me) is connected to the campus ethernet and has a
: known address (My 386 has an ethernet address as well).  We can logon
: the SUN and run terminal sessions but what we want is to run an X-
: windows session complete with graphics etc.  So it seems what we're
: looking for is software that will emulate an X-windows terminal.
: 
: Can anyone give me some suggestion?
: Any comments would be welcome, thanks,
: 

I would recommend not to waste you time and money with one of the X
implementations for the PC. Get yourself a copy of DESQVIEW/X - it turns
you PC into a useful machine. Not only will you have an X desktop 
(with a choice of OpenLook or MOtif window managers) you can also run
multiple DOS sessions in fixed or scalable windows, you can run Windows
as well. Naturally, being a full X server, you can log onto the SUN
and run any X application. Not only that, you get real hardware based
multi-tasking and, as icing on the cake, a SUN user can open a local
window running a DOS application on the remote PC!

My wife has used DESQVIEW/X for about 6 months with great success on
a 33MHz 386 networked to my SUN and DECStation. With an universal programmer
attached to the PC, I can program PAL/PROMS directly from the SUN by
running a remote DOS session.

The only drawback is that you need LOTS of memory - 8MB minimum, 16MB
is better.

-- 

Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com	
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Subject: Re: PC-Xview Remote for Windows and DOS
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:38:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.183351.25665@viewlogic.com> josh@viewlogic.com (Josh Marantz) writes:
>
>... Spectragraphics was acquired
>by NCD...

Nit...it was GSS, not Spectragraphics, who developed PC-XView.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rat@erg.sri.com (Ray Trent)
Subject: XtDestroy seg fault
Reply-To: rat@erg.sri.com (Ray Trent)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 01:30:24 GMT

Has anyone else seen a situation where phase 2 of XtDestroy seg faults
if more than 1 popup dialog was destroyed during a callback? If so,
what's the scoop? 

The stack traces are pretty wierd...somehow XtCreateApplicationShell
is getting called during XtDoPhase2Destroy. See below for more
info...of course, the HP debugger isn't exactly known for being smart
about stack traces...this could be all garbage.

If it matters, I'm running HPUX-8.0, X11R4, Motif 1.1. 

Sorry if this is a FAQ, I couldn't find it in the list.

Email response preferable...I'll summarize if it seems useful.

Stack Trace:

 0 _XtCreateApplicationShell + 0x000001be (0x346630, 0xffeff750, 
	0xe4208, 0x3464d8, 0x346630)
 1 __XmNavigate + 0x000002ee (0xffeff6b8, 0x3464d8, 0x1, 0x2e134c, 0x6)
 2 __XtOnGrabList + 0x00000344 (0xffeff6b8, 0x346630, 0x19, 0x2, 0xffeff6f8) 
 3 _XtDispatchEvent + 0x00000032 (0xffeff6b8, 0x3464d8, 0xffeff724, 
	0x2e13d6, 0x2)
 4 __XmNavigate + 0x00000412 (0x3464d8, 0x346630, 0, 0, 0x2ecff8)
 5 __XtCallSmallCallbacks + 0x0000009c (0x3464d8, 0x3464ea, 
	0, 0xe20b6, 0xe20f6)
 6 _XtCreateApplicationShell + 0x00000134 (0x3464d8, 0x2, 0x1, 0,
	0xffeffbc4)
 7 __XtDoPhase2Destroy + 0x00000038 (0x2df118, 0x2, 0x2df118, 
	0x33a92, 0x2)
 8 _XtProcessEvent + 0x00000018 (0x3, 0, 0x4, 0x7, 0x2b521498)

Thanks much.
-- 
"When you're down, it's a long way up
 When you're up, it's a long way down
 It's all the same thing
 And it's no new tale to tell"                      ../ray\..
From: hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: An Open Challenge (it can't be done!)
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:41:41 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research Company

In article <9212231058.AA09813@westhawk.uucp>, thp@westhawk.UUCP (Timothy H Panton) writes:
|> 
|> > Here's the short form:
|> >  - 8 bit image in backing pixmap used to update window
|> >  - Image drawn in 8 bit X window
|> >  - Want to draw diagonal lines on top of image that can
|> >    be removed quickly (i.e. replace them with the data they so
|> >    recently covered)
|> >  - Can't do server extensions (too many platforms to support)
|> > Betcha can't do it!
|> 
|> You don't say that the image changes quickly, so you could try creating
|> a child window on top of your image, with window the background_pixmap
|> as none. This window will copy the bits of the image. You can now draw
|> in this window. When you want to erase the line just destroy the
|> window, the main image will then be exposed.
|> 

This reminds me of another way. Create a window with a size equal
to the size of the pixmap. Make the pixmap the background pixmap.
You can draw and erase as much as you like. Don't know what happens
if the images change rapidly though and you have to catch resize
events or disable them.

-- 

======================
Bill Volz
Chevron Oil Field Research Co.
Exploration Research/Geophysics Division.
P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446
Phone: (310) 694-9340
From: deyo@hong.Eng.Sun.COM (Deyoung Hong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: need xterm window resize program
Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:29:23 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: deyo@hong.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: hong.eng.sun.com


I'm looking for a program with source code that when invoke under an xterm
window will resize the xterm window as specified with options.  The program may 
be a simple shell script using an escape control sequence.

I'm also looking for a full list of escape control sequence for xterm window.

Thanks,
Deyoung.Hong@Eng.Sun.COM

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hu@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Min Hu)
Subject: XIO problem (need help)
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:39:25 GMT

Hi,
I was running a terminal emulation program on OPEN LOOK. Before killing the
emulation program, I logged out from window directly. Now I can run the 
emulation program, the computer gives me the information:
   XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
      after 31 requests (30 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
Anybody out there can tell me how to solve the problem. Thanks








By the way, I am using SUN SPARC station 1

MIN HU
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xinfo -
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:30:41 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

In article <9301061258.AA11932@dssv01.crd.ge.com>, uejiowh@dssv01.crd.ge.COM writes:
|> I have been told that this program exists.  Where can I find
|> information on it and possibly ftp it to my site?
|> 
|> thanks in advance,
|> Wayne Uejio             General Electric CRD   Disclaimer: opinions 
|> uejiowh@crd.ge.com      KWC-275                expressed are my own 
|> Office: 518-387-6441    P.O. Box 8             and not the company's
|> Fax:    518-387-7080    Schenectady NY 12301   opinion



(newton)WORK$ archie xinfo

Host cs.dal.ca

    Location: /pub/comp.archives
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxrwx        512  Mar  9 1991  xinfo

Host quepasa.cs.tu-berlin.de

    Location: /pub/gnu
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Jun  2 00:00  xinfo

Host reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de

    Location: /informatik.public/comp/gnu
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Dec  1 21:34  xinfo
    Location: /informatik.public2/comp/X11/contrib/clients
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Oct 16 1991  xinfo

Host dsrbg2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

    Location: /pub/GNU
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Mar 25 1992  xinfo
    Location: /public2/X11/contrib/clients
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Oct 16 1991  xinfo

Host ftp.uni-kl.de

    Location: /pub1/packages/gnu
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Apr 13 1992  xinfo
    Location: /pub2/packages/gnu
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Apr 10 1992  xinfo

Host kappa.rice.edu

    Location: /X11R4/bin
           FILE -rwxr-xr-x      65540  Mar  8 1991  xinfo

Host harpo.seas.ucla.edu

    Location: /pub
      DIRECTORY dr-xr-xr-x        512  Oct 15 22:48  xinfo

Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk

    Location: /usenet/comp.archives/gnu/texinfo
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  May  3 1991  xinfo
    Location: /usenet/comp.archives/x11/widget
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  May  3 1991  xinfo
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-Server not releasing memory
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:35:07 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

In article <1993Jan8.224432.27914@dazixco.ingr.com>, naftaly@supergas.dazixco.ingr.com (Naftaly Stramer) writes:
|> 
|> Hi Xperts, 
|> 
|> This is posted for a friend of mine 
|> (dbaldwin@hiflyer.dazixco.ingr.com (Don Baldwin) so please reply via email to him.
|> 
|> He is running an application that uses X-Server memory (for images). He noticed
|> that each time he invokes the application and quit out of it, the X-Server is not
|> releasing the image memory, so after several time his swap memory is gone. He is 
|> running on an Intergraph Clipper. 
|> Do any of you Xperts know something about a bug in X-server that will cause it to
|> behave like that.
|> 
|> Thank you very much for your time.
|> 
|> ----
|> Naftaly Stramer 			    |   Intergraph Corporation
|> Internet: naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com          |   Electronics Division    
|> Voice: (303)581-2370  FAX: (303)581-9972    |   6101 Lookout Road, Suite A
|> Please excuse my English		    |   Boulder, CO 80301


are you using xdm? if so you need to include the line:

DisplayManager*terminateServer:         true
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ravi@wwtc.timeplex.COM (ravikumar)
Subject: Can somebody help...
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:49:21 GMT

I have a window with the following widgets:

        form widget --> scrolled list widget
                        scrolled text widget
                        pushbuttons

after switching btw several windows, I  randomly get segmentation fault 

The following is the 'where' list on gdb debugger

#0  0xe2204 in XtWindowToWidget ()
#1  0xe2040 in XtWindowToWidget ()
#2  0xe28b0 in _XtOnGrabList ()
#3  0xe29e0 in XtDispatchEvent ()
#4  0xe2ce0 in XtAppMainLoop ()

Iam using X11R4 / Motif 1.2 on sun sparc 2+ and sunos 4.1.2

Any help is appreciated..

ravi
From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xt question. Where are the pushbuttons?
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:24:00 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

br762@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Werner) writes:

>Please Help.

>Trying to enter the "goodbye, world" program from "X Window System Toolkit",
>by Asente & Swick.

>It says,

>   #include "Pushbutton.h"

>I can't find this file anywhere. Is it a misprint? 

The Pushbutton widget is discussed in the book. In my copy the implementation
starts in section 10.6. You could type the source up from the book but it would
be better to pick up asente-swick.examples.tar.Z from an ftp site, e.g. 
export.lcs.mit.edu. 

Jim
---
J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk
Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle,  Tel: +44 91 222 8238
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.              Fax: +44 91 222 8232
From: fein@epg.nist.gov (Aaron Fein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Howto install grayscale colormap
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:01:17 GMT
Reply-To: fein@epg.nist.gov
Organization: NIST

I'm somewhat of a novice at x-window programming and am looking for some help
in installing a grayscale colormap.  I was able to do this successfully on
one configuration, but am having trouble on a second configuration.  

I create a colormap with a visual of depth = 8.  However, I am unable to
XStoreColor all 256 color cells.  On one configuration I can, on the other
I cannot.  If the depth =8 on both, what is the difference?  It looks like
I am not able to set 32 of the colors. 

I originally tried to use a standard grayscale colormap, but the
XGetStandardColormap call fails.

Any help would be appreciated.


-- 
Aaron Fein      Phone: (301) 975-3719
United States Department of Commerce
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How does one debug a server using dbx/gdb?
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:50:11 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

Is there a special trick to debug an X server binary using gdb or dbx?  That
is, how can you start it up and have the debugger be able to follow the
progress from the beginning, given that the server is normally started via
xinit?  I know that I can start it normally and then attach to the process,
but how would I debug it from the very beginning?

Thanks for tips.


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: GoPATH (previously Go) version 1.2.0 is available!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:53:42 GMT

Has anyone been able to compile successfully goPATH using gcc-2.3.x?

I am using 386bsd and here is partial output to show some of problems:

gcc -fstrength-reduce -finline-functions -m486  -o demo_graph    demo_graph.o
 -L/bd/dl/src/lib/extensions -L/bd/dl/src/lib/bgo -L/bd/dl/src/lib/go 
 -L/usr/X386/lib    -lgoext -lbgo -lgo  -lXt -lX11  -lXmu   -lm


Region.o: Undefined symbol _GIntersect__FRC4GBoxT0 referenced from text segment
GoCoordSys.o: Undefined symbol ___ne__FRC9GCoordSysT0 referenced from text segent




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Home: (415) 495-3046    |  ftp-site depository of all my work:
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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20765 comp.windows.x.intrinsics:712 comp.windows.x.motif:8345
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.intrinsics,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: X/Xt/Motif Event Interleaving?
Summary: OwnerGrabButtonMask!
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:18:50 GMT
Organization: PictureTel Corporation

In article <BUZZ.93Jan4135708@lion.bear.com> buzz@bear.com (Buzz Moschetti) writes:
>	XtAddEventHandler(widget,
>		EnterWindowMask | 
>		ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask | Button1MotionMask,
>		      FALSE, my_event_proc, client_data);
>
>What we thought would happen is while, say, widget 1 was dragged over
>widget 2, the latter's EnterNotify event would appear in the "stream" of
>widget 1's MotionNotify events...
>We do *not* see this behavior.

Put OwnerGrabButtonMask in your list of mask bits.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: julia@netcom.com (Julia Miller)
Subject: Building X11R5 for solaris
Keywords: X11R5, Solaris
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:52:25 GMT


Subject: Building X11R5 on Solaris 2.1

Help,

I am trying to get X11R5, PL21, Local-cc, to compile on Solaris 2.1.
Most of it compiles with the following exceptions, so far.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

1) Building Xsun, the following undefines occur:
    __authenticate  in server/os/rcpauth.c
    _sunGXInit      in server/ddx/sun/sunGC6C.c
    _on_exit        in server/ddx/sun/sunInit.c
    _stipplestack   in server/cbf/cfbglblt8.c
    _stipplestackte in server/cbf/cfbglblt8.c
    
    __authenticate appears to be defined in /usr/lib/libnsl.a, but I can't
    	get the linker to notice that it is there
    I couln't find _sunGXInit anywhere.
    I couldn'y find _on_exit anywhere.
    _stipplestack and _stipplestackte are in libcbf.a which is linked into
        Xsun, but once more these aren't found. These symbols are created
	from the assembly files stipstack.s and stipstackte.s and exist
   	in the libcbf.a as mentioned.

2) Building xterm the line following appears:
	struct ttysize ts;
   The structure ttysize is declared in <sys/ptyvar.h> which is not included.
   Including that requires including at least 4 other include files.
   Then I gave up. Any ideas?

3) As a note, building the server there are a bunch of references to 
   files in the directory <sun/*.h> and (sundev/*.h>
   These files are now all located in <sys/*.h> where * hasn't changed.

Please help this lowly system administrator who has had this task dumped
on her.
Julia @ The Fuedal Factory
julia@netcom.com
From: zpgg07@trc.amoco.com (Paul G. A. Garossino)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Any Experiences with X over serial lines
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:48:43 GMT
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Originator: zpgg07@gpss62


Sandy,

You might give Doug Horn a call [zdxh0a,TRC 3247].  He has
run UNIX on an intel an dialed into the local net here.  I
think he was running X on the intel though not across the net.		

I seem to remember him talking about SLIP and the like.  Also
talk to Gordon Cain [zgjc01, Houston 5301] who has run X across
the phone lines to a dumb xterminal at home.

What is a Tadpole Sparcbook?  I haven't seen one of these as of 
yet.
-- 
Paul G.A. Garossino             Amoco Production Research
Unix Seismic Processing         P.O. Box 3385
zpgg07@trc.amoco.com            Tulsa, OK 74102
918-660-3932                    Room 2A25
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Subject: Device-independent list of colors wanted (RGBi)
Keywords: RGBi, rgb.txt
Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:50:26 GMT

Does anyone have the DEVICE-INDEPENDENT specification of the colors
appearing in the rgb.txt file, preferably in RGBi (X11R5) format?

I'm also interested in other color-lists specified in a
device-independent way.

Please MAIL responses to me, I'll summarize if wanted.
Thanks.

-- 
--    Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl>   (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
--    Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From: azhao@cs.arizona.EDU (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Subject: Generic Tetris V2.0.0
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:50:16 GMT

A new release of my "Generic Tetris" is out. This V2.0.0 is a complete
re-write based on V1.8.1. The layout has changed and people can now play
with "show next" mode and other preferences.

I've submitted the source to "comp.sources.games", and you can find it on:

    HOST: export.lcs.mit.edu
    FILE: /contrib/tetris.2.0.0.tar.Z

The following is some info in case you are not familiar with this program...


	GENERIC TETRIS
	==============	Yet Another Tetris Game on X, V2.0.0


WHY ANOTHER?

    Because this one is simple, easy to build, and portable -- actually
    the blocks are bigger, more comfortable for your eyes. It only uses
    Xlib -- no "toolkit" kind of thing. People have tested it on the
    following platforms:

	DEC 5000		Ultrix 4.2A	X11R4
	Iris 4D			IRIX 4.0.1	Motif
	Sun4, SPARCstation	SunOS 4.1.1	X11R4, X11R5
	Sequent S81		DYNIX 3.2.0	X11R5

...

ANYTHING SPECIAL IN PLAYING?

    Use 'j' to move left; 'l' to move right; 'k' to rotate. Left-handed
    people may want to use 's', 'd', 'f' respectively. Use the space
    bar to drop a block quickly.

    Use CTRL-L key combination to redraw -- in case the program messes
    somthing up.

    As usual, '+' and '-' will speed up or lower down the speed. Note
    that you don't need to press the SHIFT key -- '=' and '_' also
    work. The 'b' key can be used to toggle "beep" and 'n' toggles
    "show next".

    If you press 'p', the game will be paused, and the window will be
    iconified -- just in case your boss suddenly appears at your door.
    ;o) When the tetris window loses its focus, it also goes to
    "paused" mode except it doesn't iconify itself.

    Refer to the man page for detailed command line options.

--
= Qiang Alex Zhao                 ___       .             ______
  Computer Science Dept          /   )     /|   )          __//  )
  University of Arizona         /   /     /_|  / _        //    /_  _. ._
  azhao@cs.arizona.edu         (__)(_o   /  (_(_(-'_)(   ((____/ (_(_(_(_)
From: mistry@waterloo.hp.com (Mohan Mistry)
Subject: IBM RS/6000 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.dir
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:57:04 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

We have a RS/6000 Runnung AIX 2.3. The fonts under /usr/lib/X11/fonts which 
has IBM specific fonts have incorrect specifications. 

sample of fonts.dir file:

Bld17.snf.Z               -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-ibm-850
Bld17.iso1.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-1
Bld17.iso2.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-2
Bld17.iso3.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-3
Bld17.iso4.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-4
Bld17.iso5.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-5
Bld17.iso7.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-7
Bld17.iso9.snf.Z          -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-9
					       ^  ^
					       |  |
				  pixels-------+  +-------- Points

The points field does not really match the fonts in associated snf file.
Usually this field is in the order x10. The font properties are not correctly 
set. 

Either the utility which generated the SNF OR these fonts were not originally 
BDF.

This really screws up bitmap font scalars (X11R5)  which looks at points field 
to scale up/down. 

Question:  Is this fixed in their latest release ? Could someone verify this 
	   on their systems ... please. 

------------ aixterm use of fonts---------------------------------------

aixterm does a xlistfonts() using the following pattern:

 "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-c-*-IBM-850"


 This is not a good practice since one should match by point not by pixel!

 See  O'Reilly's Xlib programming Manual Vol 1 3rd Edition 
	Section A.1.2 pages 558-559 


Symptom: The bitmap Font scalar will create a huge font .

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Hopefully someone from AIX team can be informed about this.
Already posted in comp.unix.aix.


mohan
mistry@waterloo.hp.com




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