greymaus wrote :

> After a lot of fiddling with this, no joy. Then I downloaded the file
> fonts-misc-misc* from the 12.1 release, and the file fonts-misc-misc* from
> the 12.0 release, unpacked them both into empty directories, and checked
> the contents.

You can have the files in a Slackware package listed using the 'less'
command, or you can browse the package using Midnight Commander (mc).

> There are 2 files in the 12.0 directory, encodings.dir and
> fonts.alias, (These are the raw downloads, not after being
> `installpkg'-ed. The fonts-alias file has 'fixed' as an alias for one
> of the fonts.

Check the md5sum because those packages must be b0rken, here there's
more than 300 fonts included. If the md5sum fails then download the
packages from another mirror.
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Thomas O.

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