Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Bob Clark
Matthew C. Thompson wrote: [ snip]-- > This is fixed in bash-2.01 which has not yet been > debianized. You can bash-2.01 from /pub/gnu at your > favorite mirror. > > This bug has already been documented. > See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/10598.html > > --Bob > > *

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper > apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from > netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications > and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that > this is for extension w

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-08 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > > _should_ be accepted b

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-08 Thread Carey Evans
Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > _should_ be accepted by the shell. [snip] > What do pdksh and zsh do with thi

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
>>>Warning, Off-topic<<< Sorry for this arguably off-topic thread, even the original post was technically off-topic but, it _is_ a Debian bug (#10598). The bug was fixed upstream in the June 5 release of bash-2.01. I've received private email that pointed out that the new Debian package is now i

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:11:37 -0400 > From: Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions > Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 09:06:

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Carey Evans
Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Bash incorrectly considers (( to be an > arithmetic expression introducer when really, it's $((. That's strange, since both pdksh and zsh both consider (( to be an arithmetic expression, and $(( to be an arithmetic expression _substitution_. Have

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
jim wrote: > > Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper > apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from > netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications > and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that > this is for

Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread jim
Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that this is for extension wrl. I tell