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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: pcf fonts??? (Utilities to convert .bdf->.pcf)
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.134403@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 21:44:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.173249.24995@amd.com>
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In article <1991Feb8.173249.24995@amd.com>, remaker@icarus.amd.com (Phillip Remaker) writes:
|> What the heck are .pcf fonts, and are there any utilities to convert 
|> .bdf to .pcf?  Brain-dead DEC didn't include one.

RTFM:  dxfc -  BDF to PCF font compiler for X11

By the way, DECstation servers accept the BDF format straight.  Compiling your
fonts gives you a little better performance, but it is not required.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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