/usr/lib/vfont weirdness

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From: Tom Libert
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1985 21:47

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In the process of writing a program to convert Berkeley fonts in
/usr/lib/vfont to PXL format, I discovered that the 10 byte header
and 2560 byte dispatch table (i.e. the first 2570 bytes) in every
font file had been byte-swapped.  However, none of the glyph data
had been altered.  What's going on here?  None of the programs or
documentation I've seen say anything about the header data being
byte-swapped.

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Subject: /usr/lib/vfont weirdness
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