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

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In article <4e5bda8f$0$29597$c3e8da3$f017e9df at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Right now, to run DECW$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.

Portable Compiled Format.  They should be.

This is what I've done because of issues trying to set the font path to
a VMS font server when on-the-road.

>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) ?

Just get the 100dpi font off of VMS.   SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.100DPI]



>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 ?

Move the  SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.100DPI] to your Mac account.  I use
/Users/VAXman/.fonts/100dpi/

Then, use mkfontdir on the /Users/VAXman/.fonts/100dpi/

Once this is done, xset fp+ /Users/VAXman/.fonts/100dpi/

This way is a world faster than xset fp+ to the VMS font server too!

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