Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> [ feel free to fwd this to tech-install if it's appropriate and not
> already mentioned; i'm not no that list ]
> 
> Simon Burge <simonb@supp.cpr.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> >  + Can little-endian PCF font files be used on big-endian machine as
> >    vice-versa?  The uncompressed hanglm24.pcf is the same size on the
> >    pmax and arm32 is the same, but the LSB version (pmax) compresses
> >    better:
> > 
> >      pmax:
> > 	nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 231> gzip -9v < hanglm24.pcf | wc -c
> > 	 67.6%
> > 	 336377 
> >      arm32:
> > 	nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 233> gzip -9v < hanglm24.pcf | wc -c
> > 	 66.5%
> > 	 347029 
> 
> Uh, the arm32 _is_ little-endian.

nbftp:~ 17> tar --fast-read -xOzf \
	~ftp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4_BETA/arm32/binary/sets/xfont.tgz \
	./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/UTI___10.pcf.gz | zcat | file - 
standard input:              X11 Portable Compiled Font data
nbftp:~ 18> tar --fast-read -xOzf \
	~ftp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4_BETA/pmax/binary/sets/xfont.tgz \
	./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/UTI___10.pcf.gz | zcat | file - 
standard input:              X11 Portable Compiled Font data, LSB first

> that tells me there's something else going on here that's not
> explained by endianness, and makes me ... concerned.  8-)

Oops :-)  The thot plickens...  (Any "Hey Hey, It's Daryl and Ozzie"
fans out there?)

Simon.