[net.text] /usr/lib/vfont weirdness

tom@umich.UUCP (Tom Libert) (11/07/85)

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.