From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 01:37:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA20154 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 01:37:46 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA20146 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 01:37:41 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00693; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:36:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199511280136.RAA00693@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Bruce Evans cc: bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:37:39 +1100." <199511280837.TAA19625@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:36:32 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >>> Bruce Evans said: > >> Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searche s > >> for the mail spool directory in /usr/spool/mail. Any ideas on how we > >> can get get around this? > > >Naturally, you could fix it if you had the source. > > You could fix it by editing the binary if the binary isn't doesn't build > the string in a complicated way. E.g., > > echo '/usr/s/usr/var/ > w netscape.bin.test' | ed netscape.bin > > correctly replaces the first `usr' by `var'. vi is almost as 8-bit clean. > It appends a newline. There are several binary editors in ports which > might be able to handle this better (a binary editor should be able to > edit /dev/mem and /dev/rsd0...). > Odd, I just did an emacs on the linux netscape and replace /usr/spool by /var and then after the null added six spaces 8) Amancio