Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 09:38:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: unixguru@pacbell.net (Kirk) Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharing NS Mail across DOS partition under FreeBSD and M$-Win95 Message-ID: <199805030938.CAA25425@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <354B72BB.B230239A@pacbell.net> from "Kirk" at May 2, 98 12:23:40 pm
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> I have M$-Win95 and FreeBSD both sharing the same hard drive. Netscape > Communicator is installed and runs correctly under both OS's. I want to > share > mail folders, bookmarks and etc. across both systems but the FeeBSD > Netscape Communicator doesn't recognize the Inbox folder from the DOS > mounted hard drive partition. > It complains that it can't find the default Inbox. > It looks like Communicator is "hard-wired" to look for "Inbox" not > "inbox" or > anything else. I was hoping there was a way to change this in prefs.js > but I can't find any information anywhere. > Any ideas how to overcome this problem? 1) Point communicator at your home directory, not the DOS partition. 2) In your home directory: ln -s /wherever-dos-is-mounted/wherever/inbox Inbox In general, what you want to do is not a good idea to do, mostly because of end-of-line characters. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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