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RE: VGA fonts ?
- Subject: RE: VGA fonts ?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:04:49 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
mkfontdir is part of XF86. It should be in /usr/X11R6/bin. If it is missing
in distribution let me know. Without it none of the font will compile when
I build Xf86.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhard Karcher [mailto:rkarcher@frey.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:35 AM
> To: Pierre Muller
> Subject: Re: VGA fonts ?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:06:12PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote
> > I transfered the cvga fonts but I didn't find mkfontdir
> executable,
> > is it part of the normal binary packages or is it in some contrib ?
> >
> It's not on cygwin, but on linux. You could run it on linux
> and copy the line 'vga.pcf vga' from the linux file fonts.dir to
> the windows file. You have to adjust the 1st line, as it contains the
> font-count in that directory.
>
> Reinhard
>
> PS: emailcopy is not necessairy, I read the list.
>