PK> No, I do not have any encodings.dir files. What I run is:
PK> ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
PK> mkfontdir
$ mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \
-e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large
Other useful commands include ``less fonts.README'' and ``man mkfontdir''.
Juliusz