xfs under Win98

[Fabio Somenzi]

Has anyone managed to get xfs to work under Windows 98?

I can start xfs in various ways.  If I use the default settings,
netstat -a confirms that there is a LISTENING connection of port 7100.

If I put "no-listen = tcp" in my configuration file, xfs complies, and
can be reached by specifying unix/:7100.  I can also change the port
number.  If I make a syntax error in the configuration file, xfs
refuses to run, which suggests that the configuration file is parsed
successfully.

However, any attemp to connect to xfx cause it to crash:

  xset +fp unix/:7100
  fslsfonts -server unix/:7100
  xfsinfo -server unix/:7100

all cause xfs to "dump core."  For instance, with "no-listen = tcp":

home % xfs -config ./XfsConfig &
[1] 472467
home % _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root
xfs notice: listening on port 7100
home % xfsinfo -server unix/:7100
FSIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on font server "(null)"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
[1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) xfs -config ./XfsConfig


Background:

I'm trying to get scaled fonts to work.  It appears that XWin by
itself does not support font scaling.  Rather, it relies on xfs for
that.

For instance, "xfontsel -scaled" fails to display font sizes for which
the font file is not available.

So, I'm trying to get xfs to work, but so far the objective has
remained beyond my grasp.


Thanks


Fabio