RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: Sylvain Petreolle; Robert Collins; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
> 
> 
> Robert,
> 
> > > Hmm. What happens if you supply a (say) 16Kb subset
> > > of the wininit.ini
> > > file to windows ME - does it process it correctly?
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Renaming is done - but now renamed file haved 8.3
> > names with ~ and are unusable, I think, by X,
> > since names are incorrect - too bad.
> 
> 
> What's your prognosis on this?  Is this a problem that is 
> specific to Sylvain's machine or is this going to be a 
> problem because Cygwin/XFree86 has over 4000 files in the 
> font directories?

I haven't come to a root cause yet.
 
> Is there some limit to the allowed size of wininit.ini, or 
> did you suggest testing a subset simply to see if one of the 
> commands in the latter part of the file was invalid?

The wininit.ini size seems to be a problem. I'm not sure how to solve
that though - we are using the windows API to create it, but somehow I
don't think MS will fix it :[.
 
> Basically: do we need to pull the Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe 
> release for now, or can I go on with making changes to the 
> web page, etc to announce the release?

No need to pull it IMO.

Rob