[17709] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.3.17: netscape/acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Mar 24 16:04:48 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:04:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Dan Winship <danw@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dan Winship wrote:
> This may have been fixed since then (no one ever mentioned it to me if
> it was), but at the time the consensus seemed to be that it would
> require both a fix to the global config AND a round of fix-netscape
> hacking to make it work for everyone.
Both of which have since been done.
Or, more accurately, the global mailcap files have been set to use the
helper and not the plugin for many months; the 'fix-netscape' script, ever
since I expanded it last year, will replace ANY local settings for which
there is a global equivalent with the global value, so I didn't need to
alter that.
-Todd
