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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, yuris fuentes wrote:
> > hi Andreas, I tried what you suggested. In the process I ended up
> > updating most of my CYWIN system.  Things are working better: I can see
> > texmacs window, I can do some basic editing (equations,etc), but... I
> > ran into a problem when I tried to "Make title". The program eventually
> > crashes.
> >
> > The attached picture shows the contents of the 'console'...
> > everything was ok until it wanted the bold fonts (cmbx10 at 600 dpi).
>
> At the same place, where you get the Warnings (cmbx10 at 600dpi not
> found), and the fatal error (more bits than required... in load-pk.cpp) I
> get on a freshly installed machine (Win 2000 server):
>
> TeXmacs] Executing mktexfm cmbx17.tfm
> ... and then Metafont appears and everything works fine.
>
> So i cannot reproduce this error.
>
> What Windows do you use?
>
> Did you uninstall a former TeXmacs version?
>
> Do or did you have a non-Cygwin TeX installation on this machine?
>
> Joris, can you shed light on this, you wrote in a mail to Ilya Papiashvili
> recently about a similar error: "You problem had a conversion problem with
> the DOS and UNIX file formats. Please try to reinstall while taking care
> that the files stay in unix format."

This is indeed a FAQ entry, which occurs every then and a while. It seems that
some files are converted from UNIX to DOS format during the installation 
process
(or maybe they get corrupted for some other reason) when installing in
a certain way. Prof. Fateman told me that after reinstalling the problem
magically disappeared for him. Since I cannot reproduce the problem,
I don't know what to say more.