CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Introducing eXcursion for Windows eXcursion Software How the X Window System Works Features of eXcursion 2 Installing eXcursion Your eXcursion Package Contents What You Need Personal Computer Hardware Personal Computer Software Personal Computer Disk Space Memory Microsoft Windows Resources User Account Network Software PATHWORKS for DOS PATHWORKS for DOS (TCP/IP) or 3Com TCP with Demand Protocol Architecture FTP's PC/TCP Installing eXcursion Configuring to Use eXcursion from a Network Completing Postinstallation Tasks Next Steps 3 Redefining Keys Editing Your Key Definition File Making Your New Key Definitions Available 4 Compiling New Font Files and Substituting Existing Fonts Compiling New Font Files Substituting Existing Fonts 5 Troubleshooting Problems Cannot Start eXcursion Clipboard Contents Are Unintentionally Overwritten eXcursion Icons Are Poorly Spaced eXcursion Terminates or Hangs Abnormally Fonts Displayed in an X Application Window Are Too Large Keyboard Output Is Unpredictable and Incorrect Performance Needs Improvement Unable to Connect to the Host Where Applications Are Located Unable to Copy Items from an X Application to a Microsoft Windows Application Unable to Identify and Locate Available X Applications Unsatisfactory Placement or Size of an X Application Window X Application Doesn't Start X Application Is Incompatible with Version 11, Release 4 X Application Requires an Unavailable Font X Application Requires an Unavailable Key X Application Requires an Unavailable Third Mouse Button X Application Window Is Dark and Unclear 6 Resolving Messages How You Receive Messages Message Boxes Log File Messages eXcursion Server Messages Alias definition not found: ' alias ' . . . . Cannot create System timer. Cannot establish any listening socket. . . . Duplicate font name in FONTNAME.MAP: ' filename ' . Error closing file ' outputfilename ' when creating a key definition. . . . Host is unreachable: ' hostname ' . Host name not defined in network database. Use NCP to define host: ' nodename ' . . . . Key definition file not found: ' f. Local host not defined. . . . Password updated for ' number ' entries. PROTOCOL.INI not found. . . . Unable to open Windows Clipboard. Unable to view message log file. File does not exist. . . . Write failure occurred connecting to node. eXcursion Setup Messages Cannot create destination file. . . . Insufficient memory to run Setup. No font directories were specified. . . . Unable to open SYSTEM.INI file. You have chosen not to copy key definitions. . . . You have chosen to install both the VGA- and high-resolution fonts. Font Compiler Messages Bad font file ' filename.bdf ' . . . . No font files found in current directory. Font Compiler Syntax Errors A Illustrations of Supported Keyboard Mappings B Keycode Maps of Supported Keyboards C Keysym Names D X Font-Naming Conventions Overview of X Font-Naming Conventions Font Name Field Definitions Examples of Font Names E Installing the Application Startup Program Do You Need to Install the Startup Program? Installing on VMS Hosts Running DECnet Installing on ULTRIX Hosts Running DECnet F VMS Quotas Glossary accelerator (n.) . . . DECnet node database (n.) default (n.) . . . hexadecimal (adj.) host (n.) . . . menu (n.) message box (n.) . . . pointer (n.) prompt (n.) . . . submenu (n.) target (n.) . . . XMS (n.) X server (n.) . . . X server (n.) FIGURES 1-1 Displaying and Using X Applications 4-1 Sample FONTS.ALI File 5-1 Sample TPU.DAT File TABLES 2-1 Disk Space Requirements 5-1 Supported Cut and Paste Operations C-1 Keysym Names-Miscellaneous C-2 Keysym Names-ISO Latin-1 C-3 Keysym Names-ISO Latin-2 C-4 Keysym Names-ISO Latin-3 C-5 Keysym Names-ISO Latin-4 C-6 Keysym Names-Katakana C-7 Keysym Names-Arabic C-8 Keysym Names-Cyrillic C-9 Keysym Names-Greek C-10 Keysym Names-Technical C-11 Keysym Names-Special C-12 Keysym Names-Publishing C-13 Keysym Names-APL C-14 Keysym Names-Hebrew C-15 Keysym Names-DEC Private D-1 SLANT Encodings D-2 SPACING Encodings D-3 Examples of X Font Names F-1 VMS Process Account Quotas