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Re: Nsharp and x-win32

Hi Dana,

We've used Nsharp without problems with a PC running Xwin 5.4 and
Gempak 5.6.f (haven't tried h or j yet) . . . I believe I had to
load and install the "openwin" fonts on the PC side for it
to work.

--Kevin

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dana Price wrote:

>
> We're looking to use Nsharp (gem 5.6.j) as a teaching tool in the
> classrooms here, but I've been unsuccessful in trying to pipe the display
> from a Sun to a PC running X-win32 5.4pl1.  Checking the 'Pseudocolor
> mode' from the xwin32 color options tab has no effect, nsharp still
> segfaults on startup.  If I run Cygwin on the PC and start an X server
> however, it works like a champ.  Has anyone had luck with Nsharp and
> x-win32?  Relevant startup text is below:
>
> % nsharp
> loading clo tables.....
> finished reading tables!
> Resource File:  /usr/local/gempak5.6.j/resource/Nsharp
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-*-*-m-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> Segmentation fault
>
> trussing it gives me:
>
> Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x7F7B22B0
> siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000018
> Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
> siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000018
> *** process killed ***
>
> Thanks!
> Dana
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