Update,
I figured out how to install 3rd party fonts in netbsd.  thanks to Colin 
for a little lead into how to solve it.

Take the font, place it in the correct dir. Most 3rd part fonts should go 
into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  Once its in there run 'compress 
font.pcf' (thanks colin!), to compress it.  After that, while in the same 
dir run 'mkfontdir' , and  that will add the correct info into the fonts.dir 
file.

So, just for basic knoledge, that would be how to add a 3rd party font. 

Chris

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> 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.
> 
> You were installing fonts separately from those installed by the xfont.tgz
> set?  If so, all you need to do is add the description of the font to the
> file fonts.dir in the directory you're adding the font to.  I think that
> the number at the top of the file is the number of fonts you have
> installed in that directory, so be sure to update it accordingly.  I
> believe that the server can handle uncompressed fonts just fine.  Of 
> course, you can always do a 'compress fontname.pcf' to make it a .Z file
> as well.  BTW, if you're using the 1.2 X distribution, you should probably
> upgrade to the 1.3 X distribution (assuming you've upgraded the rest of
> the system, that is).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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