From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125428 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2015 18:10:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 125411 invoked by uid 89); 6 Oct 2015 18:10:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:10:35 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8B2206AF for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 14:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:10:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-205-230.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.205.230]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 577D6C00016; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 14:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> Cc: mike@kmcardiff.com From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On 06/10/2015 17:55, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/6/2015 12:43 PM, Michael Enright wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:42 AM, kuaf wrote: >>> Unable to extract >>> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 >> >> Something tells me that this error message is not only giving a file >> name, it is giving some font parameters that had been specified >> directly or indirectly by the application. The colons divide the >> string into parameters and the first one is a file or directory. > > No, it's a file name. See my earlier replies in this thread. It is a filename. It has certain attributes about how the X server should use that fontpath element encoded into the symlink filename. But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d section of the Xserver man page [1] [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple