Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 01:41:29 +0200 From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: netscape & dos file access Message-ID: <19970430014129.25712@hw.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970429033748.8526B-100000@aak.anchorage.net>; from Steve Howe on Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 03:42:58AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970429033748.8526B-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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Steve Howe shared with us: > > i think i may be crazy here, but i have verified this any times. > > i got Netscape for FreeBSD form Netscape's site. > if i modify the "bookmarks" path in the "preferences" file, > whether relative, or absolute, to my W31 Netscapes bookmarks > on my DOS partition, it will crash within 5 minutes or so. > eventually crashing my entire system after a few restarts. > > however, i may change this path to my Lynx bookmarks in another > directory on my BSDfs and it will run fine ... ? > > i can't understand this! other programs do fine accessing the DOS > partition, and Netscape shouldn't care where the blocks come off > the hard drive ... ??? Netscape crashes FreeBSD? Strange indeed. The funny thing, it works perfectly the other way around. A FreeBSD server, also used as an X terminal and running Samba, has my bookmarks file of Netscape and I use that from a Windows 95 PC. Works like a breeze. But I experience the same. Netscape hangs when I 'Open' the bookmarks file from the DOS partition. - Peter
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