To Configure VNI Fonts for Unix/X-Windows

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The file vnifonts.tar contains several families of VNI character encoding 
fonts in BDF format use in X-windows.

INSTALLATION:

To install VNI fonts, first decompress the vnifonts.tar.Z

	$ uncompress vnifonts.tar.Z

Then unpack the vnifonts.tar

	$ tar xvf vnifonts.tar

This will unpack the fonts into the current directory so change directory to 
wherever you want the fonts files to reside before doing this. It will 
create a ./vni directory and puts the actual BDF files in ./vni/fonts.

Change directory to vni then type './setup' to tally the fonts file and add 
them to the X-server. You should already be in X-windows mode at this point. 

	$ cd vni
	$ ./setup -il

If your X-server can take font in either Portable Character Format (PCF) or 
Server Natrual Format (SNF) try:
	
	$ ./setup -pil


STATUP INSTALLATION:

The -i option in the ./setup will generate a script named "serve_vni" in the 
current diretory that you can run to install VNI fonts when the X-server 
is started.

To install VNI fonts everytime the X-server started, insert the content of
'serve_vni' at the beginning of the ~/.xinitrc file.

for example:
		exec xset +fp /home/nguyen/vni/fonts



HP-VUE 3.0 USER:

If you are using HP Vue 3.0, create a file named 'sessionetc' in your 
~/.vue/sessions directory containing the content of 'serve_vni'.

for example:
		xset +fp /home/nguyen/vni/fonts
	
Besure that 'sessionetc' has executable permision: chmod +x sessionetc


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