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Re: wmaker TIFF (actually libtiff4) problem
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:23:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: wmaker TIFF (actually libtiff4) problem
- References: <111420031856.28437.478@comcast.net>
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:56:20PM +0000, reidel@comcast.net wrote:
>Several people including myself have experienced the problem where
>WindowMaker 0.80.2-1 does not properly display some TIFF images. This
>message describes a solution that seems to work for me. It of course
>does not seem like a good thing to do, so use at your own risk. (I
>haven't experienced any adverse effects so far).
>
>I simply replaced /bin/cygtiff4.dll with /bin/cygtiff3.dll.
>
>i.e. cp /bin/cygtiff3.dll /bin/cygtiff4.dll
>
>If you do not have cygtiff3.dll, you just need to install the libtiff3
>package.
Copying dlls with different versions is rarely a good idea. It's a better
idea to figure out what is ostensibly wrong with cygtiff4.dll and fix
that.