[Oberon] Fonts in Oberon V4. Was (invalid case in CASE statement).

[Pablo Cayuela]

Quoted mail from Robert Lichtenberger:

Dear Prof. Pablo Cayuela,

I assume you are following the installation instructions at:
http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/INSTALL.

I admit I no longer remember writing them but I think you should be able
to start oberon without any font installation. The section you quoted is
clearly wrong.

On my machine (which has Fedora-31) I am still able to run oberon by:
* Downloading http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz
* cd /usr/local
* tar zxvf ~rli/Downloads/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz
* mv oberon-1.7.02/ oberon
* mkdir $HOME/oberon
* cd $HOME/oberon
* /usr/local/oberon/sob

Hope that helps,
Robert Lichtenberger



Am 01.02.20 um 18:59 schrieb Pablo Cayuela:

El dom., 27 dic. 2020 13:53, <peter at easthope.ca> escribió:

> From:   "Skulski, Wojciech" <skulski at pas.rochester.edu>
> Date:   Sun, 27 Dec 2020 03:28:22 +0000
> > http://olymp.idle.at/~tanis/oberon.linux.html
>
> Good.  That provides oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz
> Installed it parallel to the earlier oberon-1.5.01.glibc.tar.gz.
>
> Execution opens the Oberon display for at least a microsecond. =8~)
> These notes are left in the invoking terminal.
>
> peter at joule:~$ sob
> xset:  bad font path element (#1), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
>   Serial number of failed request:  198
>   Current serial number in output stream:  199
>
>  From:  Pablo Cayuela <pablo.cayuela at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:37:37 -0300
> > I did some minor changes to the guide by Robert Lichtenberger (one of its
> > maintainers) in order to work in my system:
>
> Similar procedure here.  Reviewed the INSTALL file with attention to this.
>
> >    I have found that in some cases it may be neccessary to re-run
> mkfontdir
> > and/or to zip the fonts.
> >
> >         cd /usr/local/oberon-<version>/xfonts
> >         rm fonts.dir
> >         gzip fonts.dir
> >         mkfontdir .
> >         xset +fp /usr/local/oberon/xfonts ; xset fp rehash
>
> rm fonts.dir
> gzip fonts.dir
> Makes no sense.  Of course it gives this.
>
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# rm fonts.dir
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# gzip fonts.dir
> gzip: fonts.dir: No such file or directory
>
> In fact I tried this.
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# mv fonts.dir fonts.dir.origin
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# xset +fp
> /usr/local/oberon/xfonts
> xset: unable to open display ""
>
> "... in some cases it may be neccessary to re-run mkfontdir ..."
>
> What cases?  What exactly is the problem?  Instructions should
> lead to a positive result.  "If it doesn't work try ..." is
> sloppyness.
>
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.5.01/xfonts# ls -ld Oberon.Times8i*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 509 users 2238 Apr  8  2000 Oberon.Times8i.Scn.pcf.gz
>
> root at joule:/usr/local/oberon-1.7.02/xfonts# ls -ld Oberon.Times8i*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter users 2238 Nov  5  2004 Oberon.Times8i.Scn.pcf.gz
>
> I don't understand X and font usage well enough to recognize the
> fault.  Should fonts belong to 509 rather than peter?  Can anyone
> correct the instructions in INSTALL?
>
> Thanks,                ... P. L.
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