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Re: Can't install Fontforge; "No such file or directory."


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 6/5/2010 7:36 PM, Justin wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I installed Cygwin and downloaded the Fontforge
>> .bz2 package and placed it in my
>> C:\cygwin\home\<username> ?directory as
>> Fontforge's instructions tell me to.
>>
>> When I run Cygwin and enter:
>>
>> $ bunzip2 fontforge_cygwin-20090914.tar.bz2
>>
>> Cygwin responds:
>>
>> bunzip2: Can't open input file
>> fontforge_cygwin-20090914.tar.bz2: No such file or
>> directory.
>
> Works fine for me on a bz2 file I had locally. ?Perhaps the file you
> downloaded is corrupt?
>
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> A: Yes.
>>
>> Q: Are you sure?
>>>
>>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>>
>>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

Hello!
Justin for my peace of mind, please enter at a prompt "#bzip2 --help"
or "#bzip2 --version". And then report back what that says. (What's
inside the quotes of course, the pound mark was used to illustrate a
prompt mark.)

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