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- From: hart@waterloo.hp.com
- (Tony Hart)
- Subject: Re: scf font files
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- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:34:09 GMT
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- Joe Dudar (jd@dickens.com) wrote:
- : I need some information on .scf font files. I have an HP 9000/800
- : which has quite a few of these on it, and I'd like to be able to convert them
- : to .snf format so that they'll be compatible with a particular X server.
-
- Since .scf fonts are just compressed .snf fonts, you can do something like:
-
- uncompress <foobar.scf >foobar.snf
-
- Use 'snftobdf' to convert to BDF format, then run 'bdftosnf' on the other
- machine. You should be able to find the source code for 'snftobdf' at various
- sites; in particular, I believe it's available from the MIT machine.
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- Tony Hart,
- Panacom Automation Division,
- Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.
-
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