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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView application without olcursor?
Message-ID: <1172@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 9 Mar 90 09:35:29 GMT
References: <5452@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <132555@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5863@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <5863@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:

> In one case we had a X terminal from company "Q"
> This required us to have a machine from that company to compile
> the fonts into the right mode. The system that is providing boot
> service for our X terminals is an Encore. It's version of native font
> formats were not the same as the format neded by that particular terminal.

The X terminals from Visual accepts font files in almost any thinkable
format -- byte ordering, padding and alignment doesn't seem to matter.
I've compiled fonts on Encore Multimax'es, Sun 3's and DG AViiON's in our
network and the Visual terminals uses them without complaints.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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