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From: Andrew J Cosgriff <Andrew.Cosgriff@cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO and Polish "Hello"
In-reply-to: Steven L Baur's message of "26 Jun 1997 22:46:38 -0700"
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

gc> I'm using xfs, if that makes any difference.

sb> It might.  How do I set up to use that program, and what does it
sb> buy me?

Here's my fs.conf (from a Digital Unix 4.0B box) for the fonts off
ftp.xemacs.org (along with a few others, but you can hack those
directories off)

I run it like so -

xfs -config $HOME/etc/fs.conf -port 7100

The advantage of xfs is

a) you can run the font server on a gruntier machine than the one your 
   X server runs on.

b) if the font rendering code crashes, your X server doesn't crash :)

I don't know a lot about the under-the-hood-ness of xfs, but it seems
to work well enough for me.

The Caldera Network Desktop for Linux comes (or came) with a True Type
fontserver.  I tried it out early last year, and now wish I hadn't
lost it :)

Andrew

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#
# sample font server configuration file
#

# allow a max of 10 clients to connect to this font server
client-limit = 10

# when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
clone-self = on

# alternate font servers for clients to use
# alternate-servers = hansen:7101,hansen:7102

# where to look for fonts
# the first is a set of Speedo outlines, the second is a set of
# misc bitmaps and the last is a set of 100dpi bitmaps
#
catalogue = /cc/staff1/cos/ajc/lib/fonts/type1,
/cc/staff1/cos/ajc/lib/fonts/sgi,
/cc/staff1/cos/ajc/lib/fonts/sun,
/cc/staff1/cos/ajc/lib/fonts/misc,
/cc/staff1/cos/ajc/lib/fonts/freefont,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Arabic,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Chinese-Big5,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Chinese-CNS,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Chinese-GB,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Chinese-Other,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Cyrillic,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Ethiopic,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Greek,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Hebrew,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/IPA,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Japanese,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Klingon,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Korean,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin-Nonstandard,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin1,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin2,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin3,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin4,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin5,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Latin6,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Persian,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Thai,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Urdu,
/net/users/ajc/in/fonts/Vietnamese

# in 12 points, decipoints
default-point-size = 120

# 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75
use-syslog = off

# dynamically loaded renderers
renderers = libfr_Type1.so;Type1RegisterFontFileFunctions,
       libfr_Speedo.so;SpeedoRegisterFontFileFunctions

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-- 
 - Andrew J. Cosgriff -        >> see X-headers >>       ajc@bing.wattle.id.au
OVER the underpass!  UNDER the overpass!  Around the FUTURE and BEYOND REPAIR!!

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