Latest update of xfig 3.2.5b-2 in Cygwin 1.7 predates the problem introduced by a security revision to ghostscript that changed the handling of relative paths. The revised ghostscript is incorporated in Cygwin 1.7, hence xfig reads but fails to render eps files.
The present behavior of xfig in Cygwin upon attempting an import of an eps file is identical to the bug reported in RedHat bugzilla Bug 806689 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806689 The bug was identified March 25, 2012. A patch was presented April 04 for readeps.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=575230&action=diff The official patch and the patched xfig 3.2.5-23 were released June 20 by the bug report Bug 806689 at the link above. The diff file for the patch for readeps.c is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=575230 Many thanks to Dr. Volker Zell and to Corinna Vinschen for keeping the X11 workhorses alive and well. I have the legacy Cygwin running on a separate machine and use that distribution for a full-function xfig. vince patrick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/