.TH SHOWFONT SIPB
.UC 4
.SH NAME
Showfont - Display fonts on a vs100 
.SH SYNOPSYS
showfont [host:vsnum] fontname
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Showfont displays the requested font on a VAXstation (specified on the
command line or in the DISPLAY environment variable).  It creates a
window on the VAXstation, displays the font, and then goes into the
background.  The window remains until either the background job is
killed or the mouse is moved into the window and clicked.
The font is displayed in a 16x16 matrix;
the ASCII code of a given character may be found by (column * 16) + row
if you start numbering columns and rows from 0.
.PP
Fonts are found in the directory /usr/new/lib/X/font.  Files of
the form "foo.onx" are fonts; "foo" is the font name which should be
used.  
.SH AUTHOR
Bill Sommerfeld (wesommer@charon)
.SH BUGS
.PP
Fonts which are larger than 30x30 (not many, but there are some floating
around) tend to overlap in the display.
.PP
The window always appears in the same place on the display and must be
moved if more than one font is to be viewed simultaneously.