RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (10/01/87)
From: ingr!myoung!myoung@uunet.UU.NET
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 87 12:47:56 CDT
VERSION:
X11 release 1
SYNOPSIS:
Font files (some) delivered with no data (ie. zero length)
DESCRIPTION:
the font compiler barfed because it came upon a file that was
zero length. the files were (from "tar tv" listing of tape):
rwxrwxrwx 17754 0 0 Sep 14 19:15 1987 X.V11R1/fonts/bdf/vtsingle.bdf
rwxrwxrwx 17754 0 0 Sep 14 19:15 1987 X.V11R1/fonts/bdf/vtbold.bdf
rwxrwxrwx 17754 0 0 Sep 14 19:15 1987 X.V11R1/fonts/bdf/6x13.bdf
These should just be links:
vtsingle -> 8x13
vtbold -> 8x13bold
6x13 -> fixedguy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) (10/01/87)
> rwxrwxrwx 17754 0 0 Sep 14 19:15 1987 X.V11R1/fonts/bdf/vtsingle.bdf ... > These should just be links: Hard or symbolic? It may not be a good idea to put symbolic links in the X distribution, as not all UNIX implementations support them. The "rwxrwxrwx" makes it look suspiciously as if those files were symbolic links. (I'd check what we have here, if I knew where we read the X tape into....) Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com