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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X on a KSR-33?
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Date: 28 Dec 87 01:38:54 GMT
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Ok, why are font names in the 4.2 server forced to mono-case (lower)?
It's in the os/4.2bsd directory stuff. I can't find it documented
anywhere (that's not a flame, that's a hint that perhaps the behavior
can be just as silently elided.)

There are font sets (eg. Troff oriented stuff) which distinguish
lower/upper case font names and there's some convenience in being able
to store them as such in the file names (particularly when doing
otherwise would cause file name clashes, which is the case I just ran
into.)

Not a big deal, life goes on, but it seems unnecessary, particularly
when it's been drawn out into the OS dependant stuff anyhow (so
portability arguments are basically irrelevant, so are KSR-33s.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University