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Article #3450Re: Scaleable fonts
From: J.T. Conklin
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 01:32
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 01:32
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In article <132346@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
>Why don't you write the application under NeWS, Display PostScript,
>or X11/NeWS? I wouldn't exactly say all three are readily available,
>but one of three *IS* available on hardware from (in alphabetic order)
>DEC, NeXT, SGI, and Sun. This "cons'ing up a mode_def" bit wouldn't
>indicate you have a Symbolics workstation, would it?
The application in question is intended for commercial distribution
for a variety of platforms -- Some without News, Display Postscript,
or X11/NeWS. Cheap commodity '386's are of particular importance.
No, I don't work on a Symbolics; but I'm a lisp hacker at heart and
sometimes lisp terminology slips in inadvertantly.
--jtc
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J.T. Conklin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!van-bc!jtc From: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Scaleable fonts Message-ID: <212@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 01:32:08 GMT References: <203@van-bc.UUCP> <132346@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) Organization: Wimsey Associates Lines: 19