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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:36:04 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> >This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11
> >packages used to work, and you can remove this mount.
> 
> I don't believe that this mount is optional.  /usr/X11RT/lib/X11/fonts
> really does need to be mounted in binary mode.

I was just basing that on a post I read by Alexander, I have no direct
knowledge on the matter:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-05/msg00101.html>

Brian

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