Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus!kaul From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is machine independent in Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 90 02:28:05 GMT References: <26900108@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 14 In-reply-to: rowe@cme.nist.gov's message of 16 Mar 90 22:23:28 GMT In article rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) writes: I have the compiled X11R4 fonts installed in one location and all the architectures that I support use those same compiled font files. That tells me that, yes they are indeed machine independent. That tells me that, yes you have only machines of a single endian-ness. Just try to take the fonts from a Sun 3/260 to a Sun 386i sometime and see what happens... -rich -=- Rich Kaul | "Horse sense is what keeps horses from kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | betting on what people will do." or ...!osu-cis!kaul | -Damon Runyon