Re: [hylafax-users] fatal error upgrading to latest hylafax

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2000, at 12:43:31 AM, Robert Colquhoun wrote:
>>Are you willing to admit to "owning" that piece of code at the moment,
>>Robert?  Any chance we could get that message to include the exact
>>file name that the program was attempting to open?

> Er it doesn't really try to open a file of a particular name.

Well, it *eventually* looks for a file, no?  Or is the message
intended to mean that ...

> Firstly it looks at the FontMap path variable and looks through each 
> directory in order for a file named 'Fontmap', if a file with that name is 
> present in the directory then it uses that as a lookup table to map the 
> font name and repeats(sort of like sendmail's aliases file) until the path 
> is exhausted.

> It then uses the FontDir path parameter to search through to find the 
> mapped name it got from above, if it finds a match it will use that file 
> otherwise it will revert to just looking for the basename ie 
> 'Courier-Bold.afm' somewhere along the FontDir path.

... found a fontmap but couldn't find that font listed in it?

> The values of FontMap and FontDir can be seen by looking in the setup.cache 
> file, normally they should be identical and set to the same value as the 
> ghostscript search patch(type 'gs -h' to view the ghostscript search 
> path).  If FontMap or FontDir need to be changed alter them in either the 
> global hyla.conf or .hylarc in your home directory, do *not* bother 
> altering setup.cache no binary component of hylafax looks there(...this is 
> actually a another problem that needs fixing :-(  )

AHA!  That paragraph is what I needed.  Thanks.

BTW: lots of stuff says "hyla.conf".  I don't have one of those.  I
have an hfaxd.conf; is that the same thing?

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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