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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

There probably has been a problem with unpacking the tarballs
(some Unix files which have been converted to Windows format).
Maybe Andreas Seidl will be able to provide more information on
how to fix this issue. Notice that Andreas is working on a new version
in which the font system has been changed quite a lot.

Best wishes, Joris

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:23:45AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> I started to try out TeXmacs in my Cygwin installation in Windows XP Home 
> Edition.  I have been following the instructions at 
> http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html#2 and, since I have 
> failed following them, also tried some variations on those instructions.  I 
> think I had a good installation of TeXmacs with no missing dependencies; in 
> running the Cygwin setup while connected to the Internet I clicked "View" 
> until I saw the word "Partial" beside "View" and following that "Nothing to 
> install/update."  The TeXmacs that I am using when installing it was 
> associated with the numbers 1.0.4-4; so I suppose that is the version I am 
> using, the current version provided within Cygwin on November 21 and/or 22, 
> 2005.  I double clicked on a Cygwin icon to open a Cygwin shell.  In that 
> shell I typed:
> 
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard & xterm &
> 
> The dollar sign did not return in the Cygwin shell.  Should I have waited 
> longer for it?  I don't think this was the problem, having waited for quite 
> awhile for a possible dollar sign.
> 
> Among the many lines which followed in the Cygwin shell some possible 
> problem lines or lines related to later possible problem lines were:
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> 
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> 
> (==) Fontpath set to 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CD,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> 
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> 
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of 
> shared memory support in the kernel
> 
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, removing 
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing 
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing 
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing 
> from list!
> 
> WinPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 384  
> 
> I noticed a white rectangle or window with a dollar sign and some other 
> text on a line in it, which I think was an Xterm window, and "X~" appearing 
> on the Windows taskbar.  Eventually in the Cygwin window I noticed two of 
> the following three lines which looked like more signs of problems:
> 
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the 
> display.
> 
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.  
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.  
> 
> At this point I had a flashing cursor at the start of an otherwise blank 
> line in the Cygwin shell and no dollar sign in it.
> 
> In Cygwin I typed:
> 
> texmacs &
> 
> and received the messages:
> 
> "TeXmacs] with linked TrueType support
> 
> pk file=/usr/share/TeXmacs/fonts/pk/ecbx10.600pk
> 
> Fatal error: more bits than required while unpacking in 'unpack'
> See file : load-pk.cpp  "
> 
> So far I could not find the file load-pk.cpp on my computer; my computer 
> was set up to search for hidden files and folders; so I just guess that the 
> file load-pk.cpp is a file that had already been compiled and linked before 
> a Cygwin file which was made from files including load-pk.cpp was 
> distributed to me in executable form.  Windows notified me that it was 
> closing TeXmacs due to a Data-Execution-Prevention error.  The intention of 
> this sort of thing is apparently to protect a computer from possible harm.  
> Usually an additional window behind the Xterm window appeared with "no 
> name" typed in the upper-left-hand corner of it; it disappeared after a 
> rapid series of clicking sounds from my computer. 
> 
> I added the Cygwin X11 package called "xwinwm: External window manager for 
> new multi-window mode;" but there was no improvement. I thought of removing 
> XFree-lib-compat from my installed Cygwin packages, but did not, once I 
> received the message in the Cygwin setup that this package is required by 
> TeXmacs.  I added the Cygwin "Publishing" packages tetex-x11 and 
> tetex-tiny; but still there was no improvement.  In the Cygwin X11 category 
> I added WindowMaker and quit a large download of another package 
> "xorg-x11-f100: Cygwin/X 100dpi fonts" before it was completed.  Running 
> the Cygwin setup again and clicking the "View" button until I saw the word 
> "Partial" beside it, below all of that I saw there was nothing to update or 
> install.  There was only a minor improvement in the two following lines no 
> longer being displayed in Cygwin:
> 
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, removing 
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing 
> from list!
> 
> Otherwise the problems were the same.  What should I do or what Cygwin 
> software package might I be missing?  I gather from what I read from Mr. 
> Andreas Seidl on the Internet at 
> http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html#2 that the 
> commercial program XWin-32 produced by http://www.starnet.com/ at least 
> sometime in the year 2004 may have been more stable than XWin.  But given a 
> choice between the two programs, I would prefer to use the free XWin 
> provided by Cygwin instead, if it can be made to work well.  Are people 
> able to use XWin with TeXmacs without the problems above which I faced?  If 
> so, how?  Please write your advice simply, directly, and as specifically as 
> possible.  Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Pat