On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:11:15PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I may be speaking out of turn here.
nah ;) > I don't know much about X fonts > but they used to be server specific. That was back when the fonts > were .snf files. If you used different versions of the xserver on the > same system they might take fonts in a different format. That may explain the history behind the current situationa bit... if it was once THAT specific...then I can see why it is such a mess > You might > check if .pcf fonts are in a "standard" format for all servers. If > they are, then you might stand a chance of making the byte-swap work. Thats a good point...More specifically...since this is a font server... is pcf format the same as what5 a font server sends back? I woul dhave to research that a bit to answer...hmm However...the server only checks for byteorder not which X Server so I assume there IS a standard. also there is xfs which serves up fonts. > Example: I use both M$ and linux xserver software. Exceed on windows > uses .fon files (presumably in ms windows format). Both exceed and > xf86 can use font servers. Both run on x86 hardware. What is the > chance the formats would be compatible? If the font format is > specified in the protocol, chances may be pretty good. I believe it would have to be..as i said... xfstt seems to work with any font server (I even had a guy running HPUX and CDE connect himself to my xfstt once when I was testing a patch I made) > The point is, there are more questions here than just byte order. Luckily I thinkl they have been solved in the protocol... I think byteorder is now hopefully the only concern. Tho the question still remains of which bytes the server will want swapped and which it wont... -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
