Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:17:04 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla??? Message-ID: <20031110041704.GA90798@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20031110031558.GA4372@moo.holy.cow> References: <20031108224501.GA55641@tao.thought.org> <20031110005623.GE553@dds.nl> <20031110031558.GA4372@moo.holy.cow>
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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. thanks for your help, gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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