*****SPAM***** x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

[Harold L Hunt II]

Volker,

Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

> Hi
> 
> see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from
> my "Documents and Settings" directory on a german W2K system.

Had you ever installed the XFree86-bin-icons package?  Did it work, or 
did it have the same problem?

> This looks like a code page problem (the ³ is an ü in the Windows
> codepage)

Check the output of:

cygpath -A -P

That is how we get the path to that folder.  Other than that, I had no 
ideas why bash would munge this... but my knowledge on this topic is not 
great.  Anyone have some ideas?

Harold