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   Carlos E.R. to PaulRS   
   Re: Ghostscript looking for a // double    
   22 Aug 20 03:13:31   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 22/08/2020 01.24, PaulRS wrote:   
   > In running Ghostscript it was looking for a font it could not find.   
   > Please explain what is going on with the DOUBLE Forward Slash:   
   > "/usr/share/ghostscript/9.52/Resource/Font//usr/share/ghostscript/9.52   
   > /."   
   >   
   > Supposedly a font it cannot find is in this directory that it did not   
   > find.  The double // is between "Font//usr"    This is a message   
   > returned.  It does find other fonts and successfully prints what I   
   > wanted.   
      
   Typically the double "//" is a programming error, but has no consequence.   
      
   cer@Telcontar:~> mkdir testing   
   cer@Telcontar:~> touch testing/here   
   cer@Telcontar:~> l testing/here   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 0 Aug 22 03:12 testing/here   
   cer@Telcontar:~> l testing//here   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 0 Aug 22 03:12 testing//here   
   cer@Telcontar:~>   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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