From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) Subject: Re: Problem with xiafs0.7 + patch to the patches :) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 15:38:16 GMT
in <andrewc.730340548@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>, Andrew J. Cosgriff wrote:
>Having just installed the new X and reading that i had to
>compress the fonts, i went to the fonts/misc dir. and did
>compress *
>yep, cool...
>but xiafs barfed on it, turfed a few files and gave me bad dir. entries
>(same things happened when I compressed my info directory...)
>i can work around it by doing
>for x in * ;
>do
>compress $x
>done
>but i thought i'd better let people know...
>(I'll mail Frank Xia as well, once i dig up his email address)
This is a known and fixed bug. The fix has been posted in this
news group more then once. It was also uploaded to tsx-11 and
sunsite.
If you get less than four files, you get the bug.