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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Strange new xset error
Message-ID: <9010091232.AA29103@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 12:32:33 GMT
References: <HOGAN.90Oct8142014@trollope.csl.sri.com>
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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This should mean one of your font directories has a bad/missing/unreadable
fonts.dir or a bad/unreadable fonts.alias file.  The value given in the
error message for "Resource id in failed request" is the index (from zero)
into the font path of the bad directory.