[Info-vax] Moving DECW$TERMINAL fonts to OS-X

[JF Mezei]

Right now, to run DECW$TERMINAL displayed on my mac I need to issue the

xset fp+ "tcp/chain.chocolate.ca:7100" so that the X server on the Mac
knows where to get the fonts needed by X terminal.

The problem I have found is that when the chain.chocolate.ca is
shutdown, Xwindow server on the Mac freezes because it can no longer
access that font server. Pain in the derrière because to save
electricity, I now run the DS10L on demand only.

One option is to move the fons needed by decw$terminal to OS-X so they
would be local to OS-X and not need to be tied to the alpha, or change
the fonts used by DECW$TERMINAL to some that are local to the Mac.

I know how to get the font files from VMS.  Not sure the .PCF are
platform independent though.


Question:
Ine the DECterm Windows Options, only 3 fonts are specified:

Big Font: -bitstream-terminal-*-*-*--18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Little font: -dec-terminal-*-*-*--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
German Standard Font: -dec-terminal-*-*-*-gs-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*


Are these the onlt 3 fonts used by DECterm ? Does it synthetize other
variations of the VT font sets (double height, double width, reverse
video etc) ?

In other words, if I were to specify some existing fonts on the Mac,
would changing those 3 do the job ?

Where does it get the VT220 line drawing fonts from ? Are these
contained in the  dec-terminal fonts ?


In the good old days, I had a package called Fontographer on my old mac
and was able to convert some VAX fonts over to be used by the X11
application on the old macclassics (forget what name it was).

Alas, fontographer doesn't run on OS-X, (although i guess I could fire
up sheepshaver to emulate the old classic environment) and I am not sure
 if .pcf are usable.

Anyone been thourgh this before ? What route did they choose at the end
of the day ?