Font Forum

FWIW, the win symlinks are very similar to linux symlinks. on Linux, many tools have an option to ignore symlinks (treat them as a non-original and don't follow them for terms of recursive path exploration), OR follow the symlink and treat them as equivalent to the real file. Of note -- symlinks can...

Really? Why would it take alot of time to implement support? How do you handle duplicate entries, "otherwise"? I mean if files are on the same disk/partition, they can be hardlinked as well. I'm not sure but I don't think they can be differentiated -- they'd show up as 2 names to the same ...

The links are under "/usr/share/fonts/". There are some subdirs under it for Truetype and other types that are used by various Posix-ish and Cygwin apps, though primarily the cygwin-X server or other X-server apps. I'm not sure if other "remoting" apps make use of them or not. S...

The links are under "/usr/share/fonts/". There are some subdirs under it for Truetype and other types that are used by various Posix-ish and Cygwin apps, though primarily the cygwin-X server or other X-server apps. I'm not sure if other "remoting" apps make use of them or not. I ...

I seem to remember this from some time back. For some reason, Maintype is claiming that 100's of my fonts are corrupt and have a bad magic number. The bad magic number is (213C7379) which corresponds to the first 4 letters of a Windows <!symlink>. I've seen apps not understand windows desktop links,...