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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: zero length font files
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 14:40:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 14:40:22 1987
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>     rwxrwxrwx 17754     0        0 Sep 14 19:15 1987 X.V11R1/fonts/bdf/vtsingle.bdf

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> These should just be links:

Hard or symbolic?  It may not be a good idea to put symbolic links in the X
distribution, as not all UNIX implementations support them.  The "rwxrwxrwx"
makes it look suspiciously as if those files were symbolic links.  (I'd check
what we have here, if I knew where we read the X tape into....)
	Guy Harris
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