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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: special server mechanism (deemed unnecessary)
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Date: 9 Dec 88 14:45:39 GMT
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Actually,  my last mail was too optimistic.  The protocol spec
says that the font you get when you create a GC is server-dependent.
It does NOT say that you get the same font every time.

Therefore,  the concept of "the" default font does not exist.

The fact that current servers normally provide new GCs with the
same font is an artefact of their implementation.

If "the" default font had existed,  the correct thing to have done
would have been to  have supplied its ID during the connection handshake.
But,  since it doesn't exist,  there is no need for this (nor for
inventing a special mechanism to assign an ID).

	David.