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

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 the

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); echo B)