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Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup says,
 "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed".
 Am I safe to ignore it?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:04 +0100
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Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:

> My Name via Cygwin writes:
>
>> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a
>> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do:
>
> No, the file is correct.  The following worked for me:
>
>  > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog
>  > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done

Argh, apologies, typo above, should be

 > chmod a+w /etc/xml/catalog

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