RE: HOWTO update

James,

Section 3 Configuration (paragraph 3) talks about creating a .tn5250rc in
each users home directory.  Works great.

Section 5 Using Fonts (5.1) shows:

   font_80=-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-200-75-100-*-*-*-*

1) Could you reference a document of web page or something that might
explain this?

Also xlsfonts keeps giving me an error "unable to open display ''".  Man
doesn't help as no examples.  Don't know if this is relevant to your HOWTO
update.

Also, Section 5 Using Fonts (5.2) mentions a .Xdefaults file.  

2)  Does this also go in each users home directory?  Tried this (user home
dir) with:

    xt5250*Font : 7x13

with no change.

3)  What other (besides 7x13) might be used.

I am a newbe trying to get a larger font displayed under a 1024x768 desktop
(RH8).  800x600 is not an option (per user). 8-(


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Kurylo [mailto:skurylo@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:14 AM
To: Linux 5250 Development Project
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] HOWTO update


James Rich wrote:

>Folks,
>       The HOWTO is basically done.  Only a final proofread remains.  I
>will finish that by Friday night.  That means this is your last chance to
>complain about bits that I've omitted or are unclear or just plain wrong.
>Once the final review is done I'm hoping we can include the HOWTO in the
>tn5250 tarball.  So speak up if you discover anything you don't like.
>
>       Find the excitement now at:
>
>http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf
>
>  
>
First I'd like to say this is great work so far, but I do have a 
question.  On the  top of 15 you say, in reference to $$, "This doesn't 
strictly gaurantee [sic] that the filename will always be unique..."  So 
how does using the command " scs2pdf > /tmp/output$$.pdf" make it unique 
then, as the next line states?  Perhaps if the line "So to make unique 
filesnames use ..." to  "So to make unguaranteed unique filesnames ..." 
 Thats still awkard, but it feels like the sentence you currently have 
is offering to fix to the uniqueness problem with $$.  The main reason I 
bring this up is in regular use our office will easier have a collision 
using $$.

What I've been doing on my system is the command "scs2pdf > 
/tmp/output-` date +%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`"  The date command in backticks will 
add the current date/time into the file name.  Unless you can print more 
than one file a second, you can never have a collision until the year wraps.
   
Thanks.

-- 
Steven Kurylo



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