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Re: proposal for using windows truetype fonts
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:16:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: proposal for using windows truetype fonts
- References: <200403312221.02731.ralf.habacker@freenet.de><87oeqcy7gj.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de> writes:
>
> Ralf> # Create a symbolic link for the windows truetype fonts ln
> Ralf> -sf $SYSTEMROOT/Fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
>
> Is the environment variable SYSTEMROOT guaranteed to be defined? If
> not, you might be able to use WINDIR instead.
Actually, it's better to use `cygpath -W` (or `cygpath -Ww` to get exactly
the same value as $SYSTEMROOT).
Igor
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