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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 8/29/05, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> > ...
> > -fp fontPath
> > sets the search path for fonts. This path is a comma separated list of
> > directories which the X server searches for font databases.
> > ...
> >
> > So Xvesa -fp /fontpath should do what you want.
> Xset would not work in BL2.  Error message which I reported earlier.

But Xvesa should still work, right?

> >> Does Abiword really need 2.4MB of fonts?
> >
> > Yes, unless an alternate method (as you suggest) will work.
> >
> >> Could I reduce this to just one monospaced and one proportional font
> >> and set up some alias to point to these?
> >
> > Maybe. I will try to modify the fonts.* files and report back.
> 
> Have fun.  I can't work on this again until October, we are going on a 
> trip.

I can't get it to work, so I will shelve that idea.

> Thanks for all of the lovely programs you compiled and the help with 
> everything.

Thank you for testing dosemu and mplayer.

David