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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Help: need TeX fonts for Sun 386i.
Summary: vfont workaround in 4.0.1
Message-ID: <905@applix.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 14:42:59 GMT
References: <1148@dogie.edu> <69498IA0@PSUVM>
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Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <69498IA0@PSUVM>, IA0@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
> 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

In Sun's defense, I have to admit that their solution to a big problem 
in 4.0.0 on the 386i's (vfont fonts have shorts in them and so are machine
specific, and Sun chose to say that 68000-format vfont fonts were the
"correct" format) is flexible and doesn't screw the software developers.
What 4.0.1 does is, if the pf_open font routine sees a font with the
.i386 extension, it will open it for 386-format vfont, otherwise it opens
the font without the extension in 68000-format vfont.
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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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