fixed font problem doesn't go away

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Sat Sep 1 06:22:00 GMT 2001


> -----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,
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> Rajesh J Advani
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