Re: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:38:30AM +0200, Holger Vogt wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I got the same error when I expanded the tar files with WinZip. I like WinZip
>but WinZip will create DOS style line endings in text files. So fonts.dir in
>/fonts/misc cannot be read by xwin. Use tar -xf (with UNIX like line endings)
>to install the files.

In fact, don't use WinZip to extract ANY files in ANY cygwin distribution.

This is a hard and fast rule.  WinZip does not understand Cygwin
file or filename conventions.

cgf