Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:07:37 -0500 From: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 Message-ID: <199511301907.OAA09623@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> "Re: Netscape 2.0b3" (Nov 30, 11:55am)
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On Nov 30, 11:55am, Terry Lambert wrote:
} Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3
} > > > >> 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
}
} more like ln -s /var/mail /usr/compat/bsdi/usr/spool
}
} 8-).
}
The nearest I can figure is that netscape does a uname call
and matches it to the operating system...And the default is
/usr/spool/mail. Because bsd/os has mail in the same location as
FreeBSD. Personally I think netscape should make the mailbox
location configurable in the "preferences" section. I guess that'd
be too simple.
}
} Terry Lambert
} terry@lambert.org
} ---
} Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
} or previous employers.
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