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From: "John D. Szumowski" <harpo@javanet.com.nospam>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCEMU font problems...
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 06:58:50 -0500
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) wrote:
> 
> > > xset: bad font element (#43), possible causes are:
> > >     Directory does no exist or has wrong permissions
> > >     (it does! and is root:bin drwxr-xr-x)
> > >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> > >     (it only has vga.pcf.Z inside...no good)
> >
> > maybe you need to look at '/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir' ?
> 
> Hmm, it seems it's time for me to upgrade the help text? :-)
> 
> --
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
I guess so. Actually, that was all it took (mkfontdir). Hopefully, I
will be able to get wordperfect 6 running. I'm a little worried,
though...the latest version of edit wouldn't run!
Also, is there any way to load a mouse driver in a pcemu session? I
tried placing my logitech driver (for my ps/2 mouse) in the
autoexec.bat, but it failed.
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