DECwrite on a SPARCstation ??

[Henry Wilsenack]

We are having problems getting DECwrite V1.1 to display correctly on a SUN
SPARCstation.  The cursor always is 2 characters in *front* of where the
text is actually being inserted... Very annoying!  DECwrite works fine
when being displayed on any DEC VAXstation or DECstation (VMS *or*
ULTRIX).

DECwrite *SHOULD* be a standard X application, but there is a known
problem with DEC's implementation of X, whereby DEC chose not to use the
standard fonts or font formats available to all other manufacturers.  This
has caused numerous X station users grief, because if the fonts aren't
exactly right then many X applications won't work properly.  There are
places within DECwindows applications where there is not substitute for
DEC's font.  DECwrite likely falls into this category.

The weird thing is that DECwrite V1.0 worked fine on the SPARCstation.
Only after upgrading to DECwrite V1.1 did we start to have these problems.
DEC did make many changes between V1.0 and V1.1 of DECwrite, but it is
nearly impossible to determine which changes causes this problem on the
SUN.

On the SPARCstations, we are using a "font.alias" file which we obtained
from somewhere on the net a long time ago (1+ year ago).  I have also
tried the FONT.ALIAS file shipped with VMS V5.4 in DECW$EXAMPLES, but this
one turned out to be *identical* to the one obtained from the net.  Can
someone tell me where I can get a copy of the most recent "font.alias"
file?  Is an up-to-date copy maintained by someone?  Perhaps having a new
one will resolve this problem, although I'm not 100% sure that it is
indeed a font problem.

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