From: SMTP%"me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com" 25-AUG-1993 10:29:28.37 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: Want a Greater Variety of DEC Terminal Fonts on My Non-DEC Workstation X-Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x From: me@tartufo.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) Subject: Re: Want a Greater Variety of DEC Terminal Fonts on My Non-DEC Workstation Reply-To: me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:16:05 GMT Message-Id: Sender: @pcsrcu.pcs.com@uu7.psi.com Lines: 36 To: Info-VAX@kl.sri.com X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET In <1993Aug18.125646.8858@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> kleinsorge@star.enet.dec.com (Fred Kleinsorge) writes: >Jym Dyer writes: >| But y'know what? I'm not wild about the >| "one size fits all" strategy for the terminal fonts. >| Is there any legal way to get >| more fonts on my workstation? In particular, smaller >| ones? >Having created a couple of DECterm terminal fonts for my own use, I can >tell you it is not an easy task. >In any case, just create some BDF fixed pitch fonts and compile them >for you server and point to them. The simplest hack is to simply alias >their names to the DECterm font names. Alternatively, you can hack the >resource file for the terminal to change the font name for the Big and >Little fonts. >You can also go to a foundry like Bitstream who created several of the >DECterm fonts. Would there be legal problems if I went ahead and just *used* the original DEC fonts on my workstation? I just tried it out: NFS-mount /usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin from one of the Ultrix or OSF boxes onto my MIPS Magnum running R5, xset fp+ /100dpi,/75dpi, voila, all the fonts I need to at least run the default decterm modes. Does the license to use the application also imply the license to use the respective fonts? Michael Disclaimer: I don't speak for DEC, obviously, I'm only posting from within the DEC domain. In fact, I'm not even sure If I speak for myself. Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@dude.pcs.dec.com Intelligenz is sowieso nur wat fuer Doofe - Mia Fermentation fault (coors dumped)