[16293] in Athena Bugs
Re: htmlview not working for me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Belton)
Fri Sep 4 10:11:16 1998
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 10:11:10 -0400
From: Todd Belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU
Naomi B. Schmidt wrote:
>
> When I open something like OLH from Dash, it's supposed to open
> the OLH URL in the same Netscape browser that I already have
> running. It doesn't, but rather starts up a new browser.
>
> The same thing happens if I run htmlview <url> from the command
> line.
>
> Abby says that it doesn't happen to anyone else that she knows.
> Any idea of what might be special about me?
>
> Naomi
Sounds like the '-remote' option for starting Netscape doesn't like you.
I know you just gave this information to me last week :) but could you
tell me again what type of machine you're using when this happens? And,
conversely, if you log onto Athena from a different type of machine,
does it still happen?
-Todd
