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RE: fixed font problem doesn't go away
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: fixed font problem doesn't go away
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 09:22:37 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rajesh J Advani [mailto:rajesh.jag@wipro.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:18 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: fixed font problem doesn't go away
>
> > Try to install fonts mannualy by gunziping
> > and untaring fonts *.tgz archives. Someone
> > a while ago reported on Windows9x it helped.
>
> I did try extracting the Xfnts.tgz file manually (using the same
> extract.exe command that came in the downloads).
> Is there some other extraction utility I should use?
> Or should I be extracting some other fonts archives?
>
> One thing - while extracting the Xfnts.tgz, I got an error -
> "Skipping to next file header" or something like that. So I downloaded
> the file again and extracted it again. But X still doesn't work.
Use tar zxvf Xfnts.tgz.
Suhaib
>
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> TIA,
> --
> Rajesh J Advani
> ------------------------
> Enough is never enough!