Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers

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From: Ken Lee
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 16:43

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In article <1990Sep6.133417.10252@cs.utk.edu>, de5@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
writes:
|> I'm considerring switching from the DEC to the MIT because I
|> want R4 features and don't like DEC's nonstandard font mechanism. 

As far as I know, the current DEC servers completely follow the X
protocol and XLFD for all font mechanisms.  They also accept the
standard BDF font formats.  Compiled (binary) file formats may be
different, but there are no standards for these.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee

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