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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Byte Order in Fonts
Message-ID: <8809191443.AA01154@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 88 14:43:41 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> Are the X fonts byte order dependent? If so, is there a 
> conversion program to convert back and forth from Sun to
> Vax byte order?

If you are building fonts for X11, use the BDF format.  Servers will have
converters for generating the appropriate "compiled" version of the font for
that particular server. 

						Jim Fulton
						MIT X Consortium