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From: hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView application without olcursor?
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Date: 11 Mar 90 00:39:04 GMT
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In article <9003090650.AA11211@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
>> This is a valid request for change--if the toolkit cannot find the
>> OpenLook fonts, it loads in bitmap data and uses that instead.  The
>> only problem we would have with this is increasing the library size.
>
>I thought shared libraries eliminated the problems associated with
>growing a library, at least by small amounts (like this).

You still increase size to handle two cases for rendering.  A size increase
is a size increase whether you have shared libraries or not.

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Heather Rose
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.                        uucp:  ...!sun!hrose