Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 15:41:22 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 Message-ID: <199511301441.PAA07944@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951130090226.22014A-100000@cwbtwo> from "Sergio Lenzi" at Nov 30, 95 09:05:28 am
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> On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> > >> Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searches
> > >> 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.
> >
>
> Excuse me,
>
>
> Why just do a simbolic link of the directories
> ln -s /var/mail /usr/spool???
> Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.
polluting directories with hard links to fix programs with hardcoded
pathnames is A Bad Thing, IMHO, and always causes confusion when,
after a few {days|weeks|months} one forgets about the existence of
the link. Especially if there is a different solution using
environment variables or program options
Luigi
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