From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 20:41:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8962F16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED62843FAF for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id hAA4fS5G044654; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id hAA4fQRg090942; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20031110044126.GB90798@tao.thought.org> References: <20031108224501.GA55641@tao.thought.org> <20031110005623.GE553@dds.nl> <20031110031558.GA4372@moo.holy.cow> <20031110041704.GA90798@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031110041704.GA90798@tao.thought.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 04:41:33 -0000 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:17:04PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0500, parv wrote: > > in message <20031110005623.GE553@dds.nl>, > > wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly... > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > People, > > > > > > > > Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took > > > > awhile but I finally got it. I've been using mozilla > > > > more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get > > > > it to successfully spawn acroread. > > > > > > The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it > > > also contains how to do this. > > > > Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b & netscape navigator > > 4.8 when... > > > > - in ~/.mailcap i have... > > > > application/pdf; acroread %s > > > > [[ ... ]] > > Maybe I should reinstall and *hope*. I'm running > linux-mozilla-devel-1.5RC2. > > In my ~/.mailcap is:: > > ###application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s > /dev/null 2>&1 > application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s > > The reasn for the full pathname above is that when I > first tried to read a .pdf file, the ERROR was that > l-m-d couldn't find aacroread. > Sorry for reposting atop my last post, but I just added the full pathname to the Helper Applications filetypes window. Now, no more errors, but acroread disappears almost instantly once the pdf file is saved to the Cache. I can use acroread to read the pdf file by-hand. Strange... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix