xfree and vms

J S vervoom@hotmail.com
Fri Jan 24 12:25:00 GMT 2003




>
>JS wrote:
> > I've copied over the fonts I found from VMS now, and done the
> > mkfontdir, and
> > xset but when I run the xclock for example, I still get the following
> > messages:
> >
> > ISIS-WORK>MC DECW$CLOCK
> > X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> >
> > Also in the xclock, there is a dotted square next to the Day
> > (usually a sign
> > of using the wrong font). Do you get these messages?
>
>Yes, I had the same problems.  I performed a dir decw$terminal:menu*.pcf
>on VMS and found several files:
>
>Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.100DPI]
>
>MENU10_100DPI.PCF;1 MENU12_100DPI.PCF;1
>
>Total of 2 files.
>
>Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.75DPI]
>
>MENU10.PCF;1        MENU12.PCF;1
>
>Total of 2 files.
>
>Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.EURO_100DPI]
>
>MENU10_100DPI.PCF;1 MENU12_100DPI.PCF;1
>
>Total of 2 files.
>
>Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.EURO_75DPI]
>
>MENU10.PCF;1        MENU12.PCF;1
>
>Total of 2 files.
>
>Grand total of 4 directories, 8 files.
>
>Do you have these?
>
>After I found these, I ftp'd them to /usr/local/font then I did:
>
>$ xset fp- /usr/local/font
>$ mkfontdir /usr/local/font
>$ xset fp+ /usr/local/font
>
>and tried MCR DECW$CLOCK again.  I no longer got the messages but
>I still see the dotted square.
>
>BTW, you might want to hold off on the "enhancement" to .xmodmap-vms
>that I posted.  It caused unexpected problems when I did added this.
>
>Bruce
>

Thanks Bruce,

Think I found out why the fonts I copied didn't work. They're not pcf fonts. 
Mine look like this:

-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      4117 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER10_100DPI.DECW$FONT
-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      4370 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER12_100DPI.DECW$FONT
-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      4786 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER14_100DPI.DECW$FONT
-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      6227 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER18_100DPI.DECW$FONT
-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      8906 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER24_100DPI.DECW$FONT
-rw-r--r--    1 u752359  mkgroup      3435 Jan 23 13:58 
COURIER8_100DPI.DECW$FONT

I did a search on VMS from root (I think it was root) on the pcf files but 
it didn't come up with anything:

ISIS-WORK>DIRECTORY [...]*.pcf
%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
ISIS-WORK>DIRECTORY [...]*.snf
%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
ISIS-WORK>DIRECTORY [...]*.bdf
%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
ISIS-WORK>sho def
  $1$DIA2:[000000]

That's all I was able to do though. If I issue the command you used above I 
get an error:

ISIS-WORK>dir decw$terminal:menu*.pcf
%DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening DECW$TERMINAL:[000000]MENU*.PCF;* as input
-RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation
ISIS-WORK>


Thanks for your help Bruce.

JS.

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