I am sorry I have been so long in providing a summary to the
question I asked last month about running Answerbook under X11R5. I
delayed this summary to try the solutions I received, to try
my hand at finding a solution as well as to wait for more responses.
I haven't had the time to return to this problem so will post what
I've learned up to this point. Here's my original post:
In recently installed Sun's AnswerBook 1.4 on our Sun 4
machines. Following instructions in a recent sun-sys-sun
FAQ, I configured it to run under X11R5 by installing perl,
ghostscript, ghostview, and xdocviewer. It runs well under
X11R5 on my sun machines. I can also run it on a sun with
display onto another sun running an X11R5 server. I CANNOT
run it on a sun with display onto a DEC running an X11R5 server.
Here's what happens when I run it on a sun and display it onto
my DEC X11R5 server:
#answerbook
Verifying environment ... finished
XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120
-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font Package)
XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans
-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font Package)
XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: cacapon:0.0
(Server Package)
A ghostview window appears on my DEC with the AnswerBook logo
but no Navigator window appears. Other X11R5 applications such
as xclock will run on the sun with display onto my DEC X11R5
server.
I received about a dozen responses, but all except two were
requests for more information about the FAQ that I quoted or requests
for more info on how to install Answerbook under X11R5.
The FAQ is from the comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup. Here is the
information I got there.
AnswerBook in its current form requires the Openwindows
server. It uses the NeWs extensions(Postscript) extensions
to this server to display the Answerbook files.
To use Answerbook under X11R5 you will need to replace the
docviewer program with xdocviewer. Xdocviewer does not
support all the options that the "real" docviewer supports such
as "hypertext" links.
To install "xdocviewer" you will need the following programs:
Perl-4 patchlevel 35
Ghostscript 2.4 or above
GSpreview 2.1 or above or Ghostview 1.3 or above
All of these are available from prep.ai.mit.edu. They are
located in the /pub/gnu directory.
Finally, you need xdocviewer. It is available from the
/contrib directory on host export.lcs.mit.edu.
Here are the two solutions I received but I haven't had an
opportunity to try them.
1. Find the font source to the missing fonts, and install them on the DEC.
Create a font alias, to alias the missing font to an existing font
on the DEC. In either case, you could start with "man mkfontdir".
I believe fonts on X11R5 appear in a number of different formats, some
of which are machine independent but relatively slow, and some of
which are machine dependent (probably a byte-order issue) but relatively
fast. Offhand, I'd guess .bdf's are portable, .snf's aren't. bdftosnf
should convert between the two. You may be able to find the appropriate
.bdf files on export.lcs.mit.edu.
2. Look for {snftools,bdftools}.tar.Z or some such on export.lcs.mit.edu
to transport the fonts (-b&h-lucida-medium... and -b&h-lucida-medium-r-
normal-sans...) from Sun/Openwin env to the Ultrix X env. You can
translate them into snf fonts on the sun, and convert them back to
bfd fonts on your DEC.
Thanks to:
Dan Stromberg strombrg@uci.edu
Michael Harris mharris@jpmorgan.com
Rebecca
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