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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> James wrote:
> > The fonts Steven advised installing from Slack 4
> > were: xf100, xfcyr, xfnon, xfnts, and xfscl.
>
> Hold on, I did not recommend installing those fonts.
> I simply listed the font packages that are available
> in Slackware 4.0.  For example, xfcyr is the Cryllic
> font package -- you definitely do not want to install
> that (unless you are Russian).

James speaks and writes Russian (as do I).  In which case the gs Cyrillic 
fonts are also recommended for printing.  I load a console Cyrillic font 
to view Russian but have not got around to printing it except from a
screenshot.  Christof tried to explain how to print to a laserjet in text 
mode.

Sindi

> xfnts.tgz is the usual font package.  The others are
> just options.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven