[20948] in Athena Bugs
Mathematica problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (peeto de la noche)
Tue Oct 22 11:36:30 2002
Message-Id: <200210221536.LAA15622@gurgi.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:36:28 -0400
From: peeto de la noche <gamache@MIT.EDU>
Hi there. An OLC user reported the following problem with Mathematica,
and we thought it was best reported to bugs. Details follow.
Thanks,
-pete gamache
Athena Online Consultant
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RE: Mathematica Help
Hi,
I am a grad student in the ORC. We have a bunch of Linux computers
there and I've been trying to ssh into Athena to run Mathematica. I
can get Mathematica to run, but there is a problem with the fonts as
documented below:
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the problem is with the Mathematica install [i don't think you can set
an environment variable or anything]. specifically, the file in the
Mathematica installation:
SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/Specific.tr
look for the line with 'maxForXListFonts' and increase the number max
number of fonts to something reasonable for today's workstations. for
example:
@@resource maxForXListFonts
9600
in other words, this bug should probably go to athena, since they are
the only ones who can fix it. i believe this issue is documented on
wolfram's site.
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Tim,
The solution is to contact Athena and see if they will fix the problem
with their installation of Mathematica. I'm flying a bit blind here
becuase I don't have access to the athena filesystem so I can't
actually check, but I've run into this [seemingly] exact problem
before.
You can point them at this [1].
best,
michael
1. http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/unix/interface/fonterrors.html
