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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Three Questions/Problems
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Date: 28 Nov 89 13:13:02 GMT
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    What are the "proper" procedures to follow when a client
    request a font using XLoadQueryFont() and it is not there?

Sounds pretty application dependent to me.

    Is there a font that is always guaranteed to be there?

When a GC is created it contains a default font, although you can't
assume very much about it.

    Any way
    when I allocate the Pixmap there seems to be garbage in the
    pixmap.

This is correct.  The initial contents of a pixmap are undefined.  See
page 399 of the Digital Press book, for example.

    The confusing part
    is that it works on all color SUNS using the mit X11 server.

A misfeature of the MIT server that is corrected in R4.