emacs: Cannot convert string

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 I have this problem when I issue the command emacs

$ emacs prog/tnd.pl
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-
*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120
-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

emacs window opens up and the letters are all
converted to squares. that is all what I can see.
squares.

# xlsfonts | grep courier
#

#emacs -font fixed
will open emacs and can read but not fixed the problem
since #emacs still shows boxs.

after reading at
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/
it look to me that some font setup in the /.Xdefaults
file, but I could not find this file on my system
either. not sure if I have to create it and where? 

# xlsfonts
a long list of fonts here
...


thanks

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