From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) Subject: Re: Fonts not compressed, oopps Date: 19 Feb 1993 16:42:01 GMT
In article <1m17usINN2ne@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:
>Michael A. Irons (mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu) wrote:
>: When making the XFree86-1.2 dis the person neglected to
>: compress the fonts. As such they take up a considerably larger amount
[...]
>
>PLEASE get in the habit of reading all the documentation. It is there
>for you benifit, (usually so you don't post to the net asking faq's!!! :)
>better at compressing un-compressed fonts than compressed ones.
[...]
>
>The README files clearly details that you need to compress the fonts
>again with 'compress' before starting.
>
There there Michael. Actually, if memory serves me correctly, the
original README file didn't contian any refrence to the fonts. I sent
mail to Orest suggesting a note be added in this respect (also the
instructions about invoking the server if you have/don't have inet
were a bit inaccurate so I suggested a correction). So you see, those
who got the archive very early couldn't have seen the 'clear details'
that you mentioned.
A bit of tolerance, please.
P.S. XFree86 1.2 is wonderfull, thanks to Orest and the rest of the
people who worked on it. Tremendous job.
Cheers,
/Muhammad M. Saggaf | Stop the genocide
alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu | Save Bosnia