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RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,"Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:59:26 +1000
- Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: Sylvain Petreolle; Robert Collins; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
>
>
> Robert,
>
> > > Hmm. What happens if you supply a (say) 16Kb subset
> > > of the wininit.ini
> > > file to windows ME - does it process it correctly?
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Renaming is done - but now renamed file haved 8.3
> > names with ~ and are unusable, I think, by X,
> > since names are incorrect - too bad.
>
>
> What's your prognosis on this? Is this a problem that is
> specific to Sylvain's machine or is this going to be a
> problem because Cygwin/XFree86 has over 4000 files in the
> font directories?
I haven't come to a root cause yet.
> Is there some limit to the allowed size of wininit.ini, or
> did you suggest testing a subset simply to see if one of the
> commands in the latter part of the file was invalid?
The wininit.ini size seems to be a problem. I'm not sure how to solve
that though - we are using the windows API to create it, but somehow I
don't think MS will fix it :[.
> Basically: do we need to pull the Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe
> release for now, or can I go on with making changes to the
> web page, etc to announce the release?
No need to pull it IMO.
Rob