On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: > I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I > discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns > without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe > that this is because the .gz extension is preventing it from recognizing > the font files. Easy enough to test, but I don't have access to my Linux > box right now . . . As is, the xfnt*.deb installation produces a > fonts.dir that refers to the font files using the .gz extension. > > I am using XFree86. Does anyone know whether XFree86 recently changed to > support gzipped font files, so that I might have an out-of-date version?
I believe support for gzipped fonts was new in either 3.3 of 3.2. Anyway, all XFree86 packages you install should have at least the same upstream version (3.2, 3.3, etc.). I assume you can use 3.3-X fonts on any 3.3-Y version of the other XFree86 packages, but installing the exact same version in always safe and should always work automatically. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
