xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:15PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Just a thought: How are the fonts mounted? Some programs don't like
>> textmode files.
>> 
>
>G'day Alexander,
>
>I've only really got in to cygwin since I've started having to run XP on
>my laptop, so I'm not sure exactly what you mean. (I'm from FreeBSD stock
>before then...)
>
>Do you mean during the initial installation did I choose "unix" style 
>files? If so, yes. (And the fonts I've been testing with are just the ones
>installed by the cygwin package into /usr/X11R6/bin which I presume are
>then mounted unix style.)

Either the 'mount' command or the 'cygcheck -r -s -v' would provide concrete
data for this.

cgf