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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Help: need TeX fonts for Sun 386i.
Message-ID: <1989Feb2.155913.21796@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 89 20:59:13 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|I need useable fonts for a Sun 386i.  This machine is byte-swapped
|relative to Sun 3's and 4's, so the fonts in the Sun distribution
|from june.washington don't work.  Or a short course in Metafont
|would help.  I have everything compiled and ready to go.
|(Re: Metafont:  what stuff is needed to run it- i.e. inputs, pool, etc).

I'm pretty sure TFM, PXL, PK and GF fonts have no byte order
dependencies.  We have used the same PK and TFM files on Sun-3s and
Vaxen.  The formats are either specified as byte streams, or the
ordering of bytes in a 32 bit word is specified. More likely the
previewer or driver you are using is not byte order portable.