[4985] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: X11R4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 25 08:57:56 1990
From: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 08:57:37 EDT
System name: mozart
Type and version: MVAX-II 6.4R
Display type: QVSS
What were you trying to do?
Run a program that has a font path containing a capital letter.
Specifically,
/afs/athena/astaff/project/cT/{vax,rt}/runctb <filename>
'runctb' is a script that sets a font path:
setenv CTFONTS /afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/cT/common/vax
and then executes the file 'ctb'.
What's wrong:
On a machine running X11R4 an error message is generated to the
effect that it cannot find the fonts. If I copy the fonts
directory to /tmp/vax, so that there is no capital letter in the
pathname and change the setenv line, the program executes. If
I change /tmp/vax to /tmp/Vax in both places, it doesn't.
What should have happened:
On a machine running X11R3 the program understands the font path
and executes correctly. This may a situation that we wil have
to live with when we switch to X11R4, unless we can compensate
for it in the system.
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