What I know about X fonts from Linux experience.  Uncompressed fonts 
should work.  Older (pre 3.3) X Servers used compressed fonts.  3.3 and 
later use gzipped fonts.  I had to uncompress the 3.3 fonts for a while 
to use with my commercial i386-based server.  That one, at least worked 
with uncompressed fonts.  Don't know about XFree servers.  I take back my 
second sentence.  But it sounds like you are using the previous (non 
XFree(?)) server.  Now I'm really treading on thin ice.  Probably nothing 
I've said applies to you at this point :-].  Oh well, in case you were 
interested....

                                   Kevin

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Chris wrote:

> Earlier I was installing some fonts for X, and none of them seem to 
> work.  I went into /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/ and looked and noticed all the 
> fonts were like font.pcf.Z , and since my font was just font.pcf I was 
> wondering if there is anything else I have to do.
> 
> Chris
>