Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Shi
Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: > It may be that other XFig users are running Cygwin on a Windows > 98 derivative. Or use a temporary directory on a FAT partition. > But this is highly speculative right now. Got a chance to try it - it fails also with a FAT /tmp filesystem. > Good luck! > F

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-05 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Mike Shi writes: > Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: >> >> Mike, >> >> I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behavior. > > Franz - Well, you got further with the source than I did! It was a great opportunity (and fun) to install Eclipse' CDT and using Cygwin's tools to build and de

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Shi
Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: > > Mike, > > I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behavior. Franz - Well, you got further with the source than I did! Once I saw that (a) xfig always created files of the same name (based on the PID), (b) that file remained throughout the xfig se

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-04 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Mike, I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behaviour. Let me first reply to your message. m shi writes: [...] > From what I've read, there do seem to be a couple of minor > variations on a theme here: > > 1. Your post does not mention being able to successfully (with > preview) imp

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-01 Thread m shi
Hi Franz - Thanks very much for replying to my post. Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: > I'm also affected by this problem. I know, that "Me too" posts > are evil, but I think, it may by useful to point out older > threads and messages that were discussing this sort of problem. > My article can

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-01 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Mike, I'm also affected by this problem. I know, that "Me too" posts are evil, but I think, it may by useful to point out older threads and messages that were discussing this sort of problem. My article can be found in the mailing list archives discussing XFree: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.

Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-09-30 Thread Mike Shi
I'm using xfig (3.2.4 - from a recent (last week) Cygwin install) in Cygwin on Windows XP Home with NTFS filesystem. I'm having trouble with importing EPS files into xfig using the "Picture Object" command. I can import 1 EPS file without problem. However, when I try to import a second (different)