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Installing 6800 Fonts
The 6800 full-feature tasks, including the Map, require that the workstation have 6800-specific
fonts installed. These fonts are distributed with the 6800 product software and can be found in the
directory /usr/nms/RNMS/fonts on the NMS host. Fonts are distributed in Bitmap Distribution
Format, an X Consortium standard for font interchange and are in files with the suffix .bdf. Copy
and install these files to the workstation using tools provided with the workstation software. You
can use the following steps to install fonts on Sun OpenWindows workstations or on MIT-based
X11R4 workstations.
1. Choose a directory for the fonts.
It is recommended that you add a 6800-specific sub-directory to the font directory supplied
by your workstation’s vendor:
•
On a Sun OpenWindows workstation, try /usr/openwin/lib/fonts.
•
On an MIT-based X workstation, try /usr/lib/X11/fonts.
2. Create a sub-directory called nms and make it your current directory using the
cd
command.
3. Copy fonts from the NMS host to the workstation.
4. TYPE:
rcp ffw@<NMS-host>:/usr/nms/RNMS/fonts/*.bdf .
Where:
<NMS-host>
is the NMS host name.
5. Convert from BDF to workstation format:
•
On a Sun OpenWindows workstation, enter the commands:
convertfont *.bdf
bldfamily –d .
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On a Sun OpenWIndows workstation, enter the commands:
for i in *.bdf
do
/usr/bin/X11/bdftosnf $i > ‘basename $i .bdf‘ .snf
done
mkfontdir
Note that later releases of X11 have replaced
bdftosnf
with
bdftopcf
and may use a font
server. Refer to your workstation documentation for more information.
