But it is with such experimentation that we really learn. Ernie On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends; > > I hope I can serve as a good object lesson to all other newbies: > > I messed with my X Font Server trying to install Win31 fonts into the > ttfonts directory. Didn't work, broke my Font Server. Finally decided it > would be best to just download Mandrake all over again. It's certainly > worth it. Did it this morning. Just finished organizing my desktop. > > Exhausted. Been up all night without sleep. > > My thanks to everyone who must have been confused by my contradictory > statements, not once but twice tonight. I was trying to fix the problem > without having to bite the bullet and do a complete restore, not an > upgrade, but a new install. Well, finally decided to get it over with so > I could enjoy Linux and get a good night's sleep. > > My thanks to everyone again. Hope to be much more careful in the future. > > Benjamin > > -- > Benjamin and Anna Sher > Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net