Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 10:21:52 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape3 doesn't install into app-defaults Message-ID: <2679.841760512@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 14:43:01 %2B0200." <199609031243.OAA10083@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Christoph P. Kukulies wrote in message ID <199609031243.OAA10083@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>: > > There is no such place. Netscape SPECIFICALLY recommends that you DO > > NOT install Netscape.ad in the app-defaults directory. > Then I wonder why /usr/local/bin/netscape contains: :-) > #!/bin/sh > export XKEYSYMDB ; XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB > export XNLSPATH ; XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls > export XAPPLRESDIR ; XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > ^^^^^^^^^^^ Netscape, like any big modern computer corporation, realises that a lot of modern users don't know what they are doing, and like shooting themselves in the foot. This is their support for the `self-mutilation' fans amongst the newbie community, who like paying an arm and a leg for a 2 hour phone call which results in the support poerson going off in disgust to get some more coffee, leaving the user with the comment `Boy, you are THICK, aren't you?'. Or, in other words, it's for people who know what they are doing :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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