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Re: dvips checksum mismatch?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Sun Nov 26 00:04:17 1995

From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jhawk@mit.edu's message of 25 Nov 1995 (19:43:45 EST).
             <199511260043.TAA14027@lola-granola.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 00:04:02 EST


> Presumably this means font corruption?:
    ...
>   Couldn't find font lcirclew10 at 600dpi.
>   - 
>   dvips: Font lcirclew10.600pk not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Can't open font metric file lcirclew10.tfm
>   dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output.
> 
> ->dvips: Checksum mismatch in lcirclew10.tfm

I'm not quite sure what it means, since it seems to be losing in two
different ways simultaneously, but it certainly looks like a font-path
searching problem is more likely than font corruption.

Can you send me the values of all the relevant environment variables
(ie, TEX* and *FONTS) you have set?

--bert

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