From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 14 22:22:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA27050 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (we-refuse-to-spy-on-our-users@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA27043 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id BAA10164; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:22:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:22:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199706150522.BAA10164@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: garycorc@idt.net CC: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <33A35D34.2F1CF0FB@idt.net> (garycorc@idt.net) Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Is there a shockwave plug in for FreeBSD? >> You gotta be joking! BSD/OS netscape doesn't even support plugins 8( >This isn't true - unless you define 'plugin' differently than I do... >I have and use the RealAudio 'plugin' for BSD Netscape. They're also >known as "helper applications"... No, plugins are code snippits which are dynamically linked in, called in a standard fashion, and use the Navigator window area and app space to do their work, in accordance with an API that Netscape has designed. Helper applications are called by Netscape and fed the filename. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped