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From: davidb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Burren [Athos])
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with xdm (xfree861.2)
Date: 22 Jun 93 03:06:19 GMT
Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Message-ID: <davidb.740718379@otto>
References: <C8yoIw.4vs@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <1993Jun21.031441.69345@cc.usu.edu>
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In <1993Jun21.031441.69345@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes:

> I can do just about everything else
> that I want to do from VMS except run the session manager. Well, I can't
> run the bookreader either; it dies right after drawing its window (I suspect
> that it wants a font that isn't there).

I'd suspect that the bookreader is trying to use the Display PostScript
extension that's in the DEC servers...

- David B.