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From: mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
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Subject: [fonts...] Re: Playing card fonts/bitmaps ?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 05:30:57 GMT
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I wrote:
>Hi!  I'm in need of a playing card font, or at least some bitmap files.
>Actually, I only need the Queen of Spades and the Jack of Diamonds, as
>I will be drawing a Pinochle.  Thanks in advance,
>

I found my own answer, but in case other people want a bitmap like this
sometime, here is the solution.

The Poskanzer bitmap collection contains a full set of 52 playing card
bitmaps.  It can be anonymously-ftp'ed from uunet, and is in the tarfile
X/contrib/poskbitmaptars/pb.c0-cg.tar.

				-Dave

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