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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: strange thing from XLoadQueryFont
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Date: 17 Aug 88 12:21:39 GMT
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> xconq.IconFont:		/misc/Xconq5/lib/xconq.snf

  [didn't work, where /tmp/xconq.snf did]

This is sort-of brain damage in the X11R2 implementation of OpenFont.
Turns out it lowercased the entire string, not just the final
component, before looking up the file.  This was in order to match
the protocol requirement that "case does not matter [in a font name]".