[17777] in Athena Bugs
Re: Alleged Linux Athena Netscape mis-config.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Apr 14 13:24:11 2000
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:24:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Alex Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
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Upon inspection, I realized that the i386_linux22 platform didn't have a
global set of mailcap and mime.types files, because one of the crucial
symlinks wasn't there.
(Not sure why this should be, as I recall putting it in when I put in all
the other linux22 symlinks, but it was definitely missing when I checked.
I'm also not sure why I haven't seen more complaints about this, as it
would also affect a lot of other helper apps ....)
I've added this symlink. You can decide whether it's worth releasing the
r/w volume by hand; otherwise it'll propagate overnight and be available
Saturday.
It SHOULD try to start ghostview as the postscript handler, same as other
platforms. Now, whether ghostview will run on that platform is something I
don't know.
Alex: Would you see if this affects the rvplayer issue you wrote me
about as well?
-Todd
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bill Cattey wrote:
> I was in the W20 cluster picking the brains of people who were and were
> not using Linux Athena. One of the users reported that last week when
> he attempted to view a PostScript file the Linux Athena system did not
> automatically spawn a PostScript previewer like the other Athena systems
> did.
>
> I cannot viably test this because my netscape configs are non-standard.
> (Ok I'm being lazy and haven't logged in as systest to check this, but
> doing so only just this moment occurred to me.)
