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From: "R. David Whitlock" <ryandav@u.washington.edu>
To: Stephen Spencer <spencer@cs.washington.edu>
cc: Jeff Silverman <jeffs@kant.ee.washington.edu>,
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Subject: Re: How do I configure an application to run under Netscape 4.7x
 under Linux
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Further, if you are running a recent version of mozilla (recent builds
have been great) and encounter a new file association, you get a
windows-like popup that helps you do this automatically.  If the current
association is messed up, simply delete the old entry and do the process
again...

-David

	"What you hear isn't necessarily what was said,
 	what you read isn't necessarily what was written."
			-Dostoevsky

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Stephen Spencer wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Jeff Silverman wrote:
>
> > I want netscape navigator to start ghostview when it encounters a
> > postscript file.  So I went to the edit menu -> prefences -> netscape ->
> > applications.  For the description field, I entered Postscript document,
> > the mime type is application/postscript and the application is
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/ghostview.  And that almost works: when I refer to a
> > postscript file, it fires up ghostview but it doesn't tell ghostview to
> > load the file.
>
> Try adding " %s" to the "application" field:
>
>    /usr/X11R6/bin/ghostview %s
>
> and see if that helps.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Stephen N. Spencer
>   Graphics System Engineer         ACM SIGGRAPH Director for Publications
>   The University of Washington   206.616.3281   spencer@cs.washington.edu
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   "After ecstasy, laundry." -- Zen writing
>   "The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky." -- Anne Lamott
>   "What is maddening is the terrible notion that a person's value depends
>    on how important and financially successful they are, and that this is
>    measured in terms of money." -- Tim Berners-Lee
>
>

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