I have an interesting problem with Netscape
(4.73 from  MDK 7.1).  I had gv set up as the
application to call for Postscript documents
(gv %s), but was fooling around trying to get
Netscape to handle gzipped Postscript where the
mime type shows as gzip rather than postscript
(application/x-gzip vs. application/postscript,
as I recall).

Well, I wasn't able to get that working, but somehow
in fussing around trying new application entries,
I have managed to get Netscape to break gv when it
calls it.  Now, when I click on a Postscript document
gv pops up (showing the correct document title and
number of pages), but I get a Ghostscript Messages
window that says: "Error: PostScript interpreter
failed in main window."  Furthermore, if I try to
open any local ps files with this gv, I get the same
message.  However, if I just call gv on the local files
it works fine, and if I change Netscape to say call
emacs on Postscript files, the files look fine in emacs
and I can directly call gv on the /tmp file that has
been created.  I am baffled as to what is going on.

What is even harder for me to understand is that I
deleted the .netscape directory and .mime.types in
an account and tried simply starting from scratch with
a Netscape.  However, after accepting the license, etc.,
Netscape comes up showing Postscript documents already
set to call gv %s!!  In other words, it seems to have
written this outside of the user account (since this is
now the orginal default for Netscape).  This makes me
wonder whether it has somehow stored some of the weird
commands I was trying and is also attempting to execute
them.

Anyway, before I delete and re-install netscape, I was
wondering if anyone else had every encountered anything
like this or had any suggestions for what I might try
short of re-installing Netscape.

Thanks,
Norm

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