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List:       tru64-unix-managers
Subject:    [Summary] Alpha station as X-terminal server
From:       risler () cgm ! cnrs-gif ! fr
Date:       1995-09-30 16:26:10
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Dear all,

My question was: "How should I set up my Alpha box so as to download the fonts 
for X-terminals from it?"

I gathered the answer from: 	Yves Vander Haegen
				Yizhong Zhou
				Knut Helleboe
				Miguel Mena
				Leonardo Lazarte
				Reinhardt Doelz

Thanks to you! Here it is:

1) My X-terminals are set to use the tftp protocol. 
   - check in /etc/inetd.conf that the tftpd entry is not commented out
   - check the last parameter in this line. It is the "home directory" for 
     tftp. Let us call it /usr/tftpboot

2) As far as I understand now, the client (my X-terminal) can get a file 
   ONLY from this directory. Thus, a link MUST be made between /usr/tftpboot 
   and the actual directory where the fonts reside.
   I therefore made a soft link between /usr/tftpboot/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir 
   and /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
   idem for 75dpi

3) Now I just define the font path in the X-terminal configuration window 
   as /usr/tfptpboot/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir

   and here it is. Thanks again.

Jean-Loup


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CNRS                                 Fax:  (33 1) 69 07 49 73
Centre de Genetique Moleculaire	     Email: risler@cgmvax.cgm.cnrs-gif.fr
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