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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How should XListFonts interact with font aliases.
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Date: 22 Feb 90 14:57:02 GMT
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    I have been trying to make some font aliases and I have noticed that 
    XListFonts will return aliases for fonts that do not exist. Is this a bug?

Not particularly.

    Shouldn't the xserver verify the existence of the actual font before 
    returning the name from XListFonts?

The server doesn't verify the existence of font files for normal font names
before returning them in XListFonts.  And even if it did, there's no
guarantee that they would still exist when you got around to opening them.