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Installing TeemTalk On UNIX Based Products

Installing Fonts On X Terminals

The standard TeemTalk installation will convert the Bitmap Distribution Format
(BDF) fonts supplied with TeemTalk to the format used by the workstation on which
TeemTalk is being installed. When TeemTalk is to be displayed on X terminals the
format of the converted fonts may not be compatible with the X terminal.
The following notes are for guidance and later information on how to install fonts may
be found in the Operator's Manual supplied with the X terminal.

NCD X Terminals

Font Format
The NCD font server can read a number of different formats including:
Portable Compiled Fonts (PCF), which is the standard format used in X11R5.
If TeemTalk has been installed on an X11R5 based workstation then the bdf
fonts will have already been converted to pcf format and the font format will
be directly readable by the NCD X terminal.
Server Natural Format (SNF) prior to X11R5
The NCD X terminal can read snf format fonts from a variety of sources
including HP, IBM, MIT, DEC, Sun and SCO. When specifying snf format
fonts from these vendors the following prefix should be used to identify the
format. For example, for IBM snf fonts use the following:
/u/fonts/ibm-snf
The prefixes for the snf fonts are as follows:
If the prefix is not specified, NCD is assumed. NCD specific snf fonts can be
created by modifying the bdftosnf statement in the install script to:
bdftosnf -p4
Configuration Parameters
The NCD X terminal stores its configuration data in a file called config which is
located in the directory /usr/lib/X11/ncd/fs. Among other parameters the configura-
tion file contains a search list of font directories. For example:
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HP: hp SCO: sco
IBM: ibm NCD: ncd
DEC: dec Sun: sun