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In GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Fri Oct 26 1990 on beast (berkeley-unix)

This is more of a suggestion than a bug report.

If you set a font in the .Xdefaults file with the resource emacs*font,
then if emacs cannot find the named font it exits.  It would be more
robust if it simply used the default font that it comes up with if none
is specified.  Or perhaps asking for a font like 

-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-*-*

is the right thing to do when the font named in the emacs*font
resources can't be found.

This came up because we have many different X machines but we
keep our home directories on a fileserver; logging into another
X machine one day, I found that I could not run Emacs.

Also, IWBNI emacs supported  non-character-cell fonts in V19...

Thanks!

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