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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: strange thing from XLoadQueryFont
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Date: 17 Aug 88 17:44:00 GMT
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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 88 11:57:08 CDT
    From: Tom Ekberg 

    I think that putting a directory
    name in a font string is brain damaged.

Absolutely.  This "feature" has been removed from the server code we
presently expect to ship in R3, as a side-effect of redesign to make
font names completely independent of file names.