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Default Font Locations

By default on a Solaris system, the
base directory is
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts

Directory File suffixes Contents
--------------------------------------------------------
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi *.pcf Bitmap Fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi *.pcf Bitmap Fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3/afm *.f3b F3 format outline fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/map *.map F3 character set specifications
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps *.pcf Bitmap Fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo *.spd Bitstream Speedo format outlines
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 *.pfa *.pfb Type1 outline fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/afm *.afm Adobe font metrics
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/outline *.pfa *.pfb Type1 outline fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/prebuilt *.bept *.lepf Bitmaps for SPARC(R) Solaris[TM] and X86
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Xt+ *.pcf Bitmap Fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type3 *.ps PostScript outline fonts
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/encodings *.enc Encodings
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/misc *.pcf Bitmap Fonts

In Solaris[TM] 2.4 or later, CDE (SPARCdesign[TM]) adds a new set of fonts:
/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C
Suffix Meaning
-------------------------------------
.pcf.Z Compressed Bitmap Fonts

By default on a SunOS[TM] system, the
base directory is
/usr/openwin/lib/fonts

Suffix Meaning
--------------------------------------
.afb Adobe ASCII format bitmap font file
.afm Adobe ASCII format metric file
.bdf Adobe/MIT BDF2.1 format file
.f3b F3 (outline font) file
.fb X11/NeWS font binary file
.ff X11/NeWS Font family file
.fm X11/NeWS font metric file
.ps PostScript language font file
.vft V font format file

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update-canna-dics_dir

update-canna-dics_dir(8)				      System Manager's Manual					  update-canna-dics_dir(8)

NAME

       update-canna-dics_dir - compile dics.dir file

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       update-canna-dics_dir  assembles  a  dics.dir  file  in	the  Canna  dictionary	using  one  or more alias files found in a subdirectory of
       /etc/X11/fonts/.  It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing fonts (that pro-
       vide  aliases  for  their names) for the X Window System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct fonts.alias files.  For each direc-
       tory, which is either an absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably) simply the last component of its path  (such  as  "75dpi"	or
       "misc"),  update-canna-dics_dir	will  assemble	/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.alias  from	the  files  found in /etc/X11/fonts/direc-
       tory/package.alias.

       This enables multiple packages to provide aliases for fonts in the same directory.  No font package actually provides the fonts.alias  file
       in the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's aliases with those of another.

       For instance, the two packages "xfonts-base" and "xfonts-cjk" may both install fonts into the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  They each
       place their fonts.alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and  /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-cjk.alias  (respectively).   update-
       canna-dics_dir	 concatenates	 these	 two   files   (as   well   as	 any   others	that   match   /etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias)   into
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.

       The format for fonts.alias files is given in the mkfontdir(1) manual page.

       An example of how to use update-canna-dics_dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.

SEE ALSO

       mkfontdir(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

       update-canna-dics_dir exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid.

BUGS

       See <http://bugs.debian.org/canna>.  If you wish to report a bug in  update-canna-dics_dir,  please  see  /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-report-
       ing.txt, the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHOR

       update-canna-dics_dir is written and copyrighted by ISHIKAWA Mutsumi.  It is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2.

Debian GNU/Linux						  25 August 2001					  update-canna-dics_dir(8)