From owner-freebsd-mozilla Sun May 3 02:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04114 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 02:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04104 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 02:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03917; Sun, 3 May 1998 02:38:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd003915; Sun May 3 02:38:05 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA25425; Sun, 3 May 1998 02:38:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805030938.CAA25425@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Sharing NS Mail across DOS partition under FreeBSD and M$-Win95 To: unixguru@pacbell.net (Kirk) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 09:38:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <354B72BB.B230239A@pacbell.net> from "Kirk" at May 2, 98 12:23:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have M$-Win95 and FreeBSD both sharing the same hard drive. Netscape > Communicator is installed and runs correctly under both OS's. I want to > share > mail folders, bookmarks and etc. across both systems but the FeeBSD > Netscape Communicator doesn't recognize the Inbox folder from the DOS > mounted hard drive partition. > It complains that it can't find the default Inbox. > It looks like Communicator is "hard-wired" to look for "Inbox" not > "inbox" or > anything else. I was hoping there was a way to change this in prefs.js > but I can't find any information anywhere. > Any ideas how to overcome this problem? 1) Point communicator at your home directory, not the DOS partition. 2) In your home directory: ln -s /wherever-dos-is-mounted/wherever/inbox Inbox In general, what you want to do is not a good idea to do, mostly because of end-of-line characters. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message