<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Quoted mail from Robert Lichtenberger:</span></font></div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div>Dear Prof. Pablo Cayuela,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I assume you are following the installation instructions at:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/INSTALL" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/INSTALL</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I admit I no longer remember writing them but I think you should be able</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">to start oberon without any font installation. The section you quoted is</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">clearly wrong.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">On my machine (which has Fedora-31) I am still able to run oberon by:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* Downloading </span><a href="http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* cd /usr/local</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* tar zxvf ~rli/Downloads/oberon-1.7.02.t</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ar.gz</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* mv oberon-1.7.02/ oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* mkdir $HOME/oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* cd $HOME/oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* /usr/local/oberon/sob</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hope that helps,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Robert Lichtenberger</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Am 01.02.20 um 18:59 schrieb Pablo Cayuela:</span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El dom., 27 dic. 2020 13:53, <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From: "Skulski, Wojciech" <<a href="mailto:skulski@pas.rochester.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">skulski@pas.rochester.edu</a>><br>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 03:28:22 +0000<br>
> <a href="http://olymp.idle.at/~tanis/oberon.linux.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://olymp.idle.at/~tanis/oberon.linux.html</a><br>
<br>
Good. That provides oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz<br>
Installed it parallel to the earlier oberon-1.5.01.glibc.tar.gz.<br>
<br>
Execution opens the Oberon display for at least a microsecond. =8~)<br>
These notes are left in the invoking terminal.<br>
<br>
peter@joule:~$ sob <br>
xset: bad font path element (#1), possible causes are:<br>
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions<br>
Directory missing fonts.dir<br>
Incorrect font server address or syntax<br>
<br>
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)<br>
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)<br>
Serial number of failed request: 198<br>
Current serial number in output stream: 199<br>
<br>
From: Pablo Cayuela <<a href="mailto:pablo.cayuela@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pablo.cayuela@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:37:37 -0300<br>
> I did some minor changes to the guide by Robert Lichtenberger (one of its<br>
> maintainers) in order to work in my system:<br>
<br>
Similar procedure here. Reviewed the INSTALL file with attention to this.<br>
<br>
> I have found that in some cases it may be neccessary to re-run mkfontdir<br>
> and/or to zip the fonts.<br>
> <br>
> cd /usr/local/oberon-<version>/xfonts<br>
> rm fonts.dir<br>
> gzip fonts.dir<br>
> mkfontdir .<br>
> xset +fp /usr/local/oberon/xfonts ; xset fp rehash<br>
<br>
rm fonts.dir<br>
gzip fonts.dir<br>
Makes no sense. Of course it gives this.<br>
<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# rm fonts.dir<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# gzip fonts.dir<br>
gzip: fonts.dir: No such file or directory<br>
<br>
In fact I tried this.<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# mv fonts.dir fonts.dir.origin<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# xset +fp /usr/local/oberon/xfonts<br>
xset: unable to open display ""<br>
<br>
"... in some cases it may be neccessary to re-run mkfontdir ..."<br>
<br>
What cases? What exactly is the problem? Instructions should <br>
lead to a positive result. "If it doesn't work try ..." is <br>
sloppyness.<br>
<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.5.01/xfonts# ls -ld Oberon.Times8i*<br>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 509 users 2238 Apr 8 2000 Oberon.Times8i.Scn.pcf.gz<br>
<br>
root@joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# ls -ld Oberon.Times8i*<br>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter users 2238 Nov 5 2004 Oberon.Times8i.Scn.pcf.gz<br>
<br>
I don't understand X and font usage well enough to recognize the <br>
fault. Should fonts belong to 509 rather than peter? Can anyone <br>
correct the instructions in INSTALL?<br>
<br>
Thanks, ... P. L.<br>
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Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca<br>
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