[19810] in Athena Bugs
Re: local netscape breakage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Sep 18 14:24:09 2001
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> A user had trouble starting netscape on w20-575-109, reporting
> "Netscape 4.78 is not available on this Solaris workstation."
>
> [ This is a singularly useless error message, and should be fixed,
> I think. ]
Local netscape inherits that message from the infoagents 'netscape'
wrapper. Any suggestions on what it might say instead? The message happens
not just when the platform directory is missing (where I admit it's pretty
useless) but also when that VERSION of netscape is unavailable for the
platform (but others are) - its intended primary purpose.
