Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Jan Weytjens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is the (mis)matching of the parentheses. > When run in an xterm window, I get the same error message. > Apparently, the problem is with bash (/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash) which > complains about about the following syntax: > > ((echo A);

Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Sten Anderson
"Jan Weytjens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The error is in the shell command communicator tries to run with sh: > > ((/usr/bin/acroread /tmp/MOsomething.pdf); rm /tmp/MOsomething.pdf)& > > where MOsomething.pdf is a temporary file in the /tmp directory. > The problem is the (mis)matching of th

Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Jan Weytjens
I have Apache (from the debian distribution 1.3) running on a Toshiba 530CDT notebook running Linux 2.0.30 (debian 1.3). I also have Netscape communicator 4.04 on the same machine. When I configure edit preferences navigator applications to use acroread to open URLs pointing to pdf files as follows