Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:

 Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
  On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
   guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
   than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.  
   
   it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
   
   QUOTE
   
   # Bill's birthday:
   08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
   
   # watch one-time broadcast!!
   08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
   
   /QUOTE
 ...
  deskutils/ical ?
 
 Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind.
 ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured
 format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand;
 and I don't recall its being set up to send email.
 

No, it's not able to send email AFAIK.

If Gary just wants reminders of when to take pills, then I would
recommend him to use at(1) and get it to call a file which calls
xmessage at the correct times of day. E.g. that file contains:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
xmessage -geom 100x100+100+100 Take pills!

or if you want to use email use mail(1) and at(1)
 
I don't think anybodys mentioned at(1). It's in base and not a port,
xmessage is a port.


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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
 
  Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
   On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.  

it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like

QUOTE

# Bill's birthday:
08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.

# watch one-time broadcast!!
08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours

/QUOTE
  ...
   deskutils/ical ?
  
  Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind.
  ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured
  format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand;
  and I don't recall its being set up to send email.
  
 
 No, it's not able to send email AFAIK.
 
 If Gary just wants reminders of when to take pills, then I would
 recommend him to use at(1) and get it to call a file which calls
 xmessage at the correct times of day. E.g. that file contains:
 
 export DISPLAY=:0.0
 xmessage -geom 100x100+100+100 Take pills!
 
 or if you want to use email use mail(1) and at(1)
  
 I don't think anybodys mentioned at(1). It's in base and not a port,
 xmessage is a port.
 



This might work for ssomething like a reminder to down my pills.
I completely forgot about 'at'.  

:-
)

gary


 
 Regards,
 
 -- 
 
  Frank
 
  Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
 
 

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 31 July 2010:
 On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
  
   Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
 guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
 than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.  
 
 it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
 
 QUOTE
 
 # Bill's birthday:
 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
 
 # watch one-time broadcast!!
 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
 
 /QUOTE
   ...
deskutils/ical ?
   
   Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind.
   ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured
   format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand;
   and I don't recall its being set up to send email.
   
  
  No, it's not able to send email AFAIK.
  
  If Gary just wants reminders of when to take pills, then I would
  recommend him to use at(1) and get it to call a file which calls
  xmessage at the correct times of day. E.g. that file contains:
  
  export DISPLAY=:0.0
  xmessage -geom 100x100+100+100 Take pills!
  
  or if you want to use email use mail(1) and at(1)
   
  I don't think anybodys mentioned at(1). It's in base and not a port,
  xmessage is a port.
  
 
 
 
   This might work for ssomething like a reminder to down my pills.
   I completely forgot about 'at'.  
 
   :-
   )
 
   gary

Using the 'when' scripts I developed, you can generate reminders that will
pipe to anything, including mail or xmessage 
(http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen)

I send mine to my xmobar in bright yellow, so it gets my attention but
doesn't require me to close a dialog or anything.

 
 
  
  Regards,
  
  -- 
  
   Frank
  
   Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
  
  
 
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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:30:01PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
 Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 31 July 2010:
  On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
   On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
   
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
  guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
  than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.  
  
  it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
  
  QUOTE
  
  # Bill's birthday:
  08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
  
  # watch one-time broadcast!!
  08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
  
  /QUOTE
...
 deskutils/ical ?

Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind.
ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured
format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand;
and I don't recall its being set up to send email.

   
   No, it's not able to send email AFAIK.
   
   If Gary just wants reminders of when to take pills, then I would
   recommend him to use at(1) and get it to call a file which calls
   xmessage at the correct times of day. E.g. that file contains:
   
   export DISPLAY=:0.0
   xmessage -geom 100x100+100+100 Take pills!
   
   or if you want to use email use mail(1) and at(1)

   I don't think anybodys mentioned at(1). It's in base and not a port,
   xmessage is a port.
   
  
  
  
  This might work for ssomething like a reminder to down my pills.
  I completely forgot about 'at'.  
  
  :-
  )
  
  gary
 
 Using the 'when' scripts I developed, you can generate reminders that will
 pipe to anything, including mail or xmessage 
 (http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen)
 
 I send mine to my xmobar in bright yellow, so it gets my attention but
 doesn't require me to close a dialog or anything.
 


i grabbed your tarball last night, chip.  going to have a look!

gary


  
  
   
   Regards,
   
   -- 
   
Frank
   
Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
   
   
  
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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko

29.07.2010 05:04, Gary Kline wrote:

guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
ago.  cannot find.

it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like

QUOTE

# Bill's birthday:
08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.

# watch one-time broadcast!!
08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours

/QUOTE


i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 

I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
rid of it.

anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.


man calendar? It can send mail if you want. It's also integrated into 
daily scripts.


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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:

 guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
 ago.  cannot find.  
 
 it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
 
 QUOTE
 
 # Bill's birthday:
 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
 
 # watch one-time broadcast!!
 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
 
 /QUOTE
 
 
 i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
 program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
 search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 
 
 I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
 when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
 rid of it.
 
 anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.
 
 tia, y'all,
 
 gary
 
 PS: and now, time for a brew or maybe a =NAP=
 
 []
 

deskutils/ical ?


Regards,

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:15:53PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
 On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
  guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
  ago.  cannot find.  
 
 http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
 
 Would it be Remind?
 
 Best,
 --Glenn
 

i THOUGHT so, but nope...  

gary


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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:15:53PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
 On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
  guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
  ago.  cannot find.

 http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

 Would it be Remind?


        i THOUGHT so, but nope...

        gary

It can only be calendar(1), part of the base system. I was using it
over 25 years ago already and ever since on all kinds of Unices:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=calendarapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASEformat=html

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-cpghost.

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:37:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
 Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 28 July 2010:
  guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
  ago.  cannot find.  
  
  it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
  
  QUOTE
  
  # Bill's birthday:
  08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
  
  # watch one-time broadcast!!
  08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
  
  /QUOTE
  
  
  i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
  program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
  search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 
  
  I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
  when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
  rid of it.
  
  anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.
  
  tia, y'all,
  
  gary
  
  PS: and now, time for a brew or maybe a =NAP=
  
  []
  
  
 /usr/ports/deskutils/when
 
 my favorite.  I've written a lot of scripts to supplement it, too:
 
 http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen
 
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Yup, this has to be it, altho i thought i was using this  2003.
i'll ck out your scripts, thanks muchly.

gary

ps:  main thing i need it for is something like

 */6 have you remmbered your meds!  

or somesuch.  sitting and hacking away, i tend to ferget everthing.
somebody will find me here at computer, frozen, cobwebs and the 
whole bit. :)




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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
 ago.  cannot find.

 it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like

 QUOTE

 # Bill's birthday:
 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.

 # watch one-time broadcast!!
 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours

 /QUOTE


 i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
 program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
 search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 

 I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
 when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
 rid of it.

 anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.

 tia, y'all,

 gary

 PS: and now, time for a brew or maybe a =NAP=

 []

http://www.freshports.org/misc/birthday/ ?
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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread perryh
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
  guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
  than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.  
  
  it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
  
  QUOTE
  
  # Bill's birthday:
  08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
  
  # watch one-time broadcast!!
  08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
  
  /QUOTE
...
 deskutils/ical ?

Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind.
ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured
format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand;
and I don't recall its being set up to send email.
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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
 Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes:

Gary guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
Gary ago.  cannot find.  

Gary it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like

Gary QUOTE

Gary # Bill's birthday:
Gary 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.

Gary # watch one-time broadcast!!
Gary 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours

Gary /QUOTE

remind?

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

http://www.freshports.org/deskutils/remind/

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:20:41PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
  Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes:
 
 Gary guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
 Gary ago.  cannot find.  
 
 Gary it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
 
 Gary QUOTE
 
 Gary # Bill's birthday:
 Gary 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
 
 Gary # watch one-time broadcast!!
 Gary 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
 
 Gary /QUOTE
 
 remind?
 
 http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
 
 http://www.freshports.org/deskutils/remind/
 
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it was `when'; i need a ~/.dotfile template that i can edit and
i'll be able to try.   last time, years back, i found [or was send]
a template and edited to my own use.

the nice thing about this program is that it pops up a small
rectangle and you have to click on the rectangle to clear your
screen. 

thanks to everybody who responded!

gary



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ok, i give up...

2010-07-28 Thread Gary Kline
guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
ago.  cannot find.  

it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like

QUOTE

# Bill's birthday:
08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.

# watch one-time broadcast!!
08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours

/QUOTE


i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 

I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
rid of it.

anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.

tia, y'all,

gary

PS: and now, time for a brew or maybe a =NAP=

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-28 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
 guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
 ago.  cannot find.  

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

Would it be Remind?

Best,
--Glenn

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Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 28 July 2010:
 guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
 ago.  cannot find.  
 
 it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like
 
 QUOTE
 
 # Bill's birthday:
 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card.
 
 # watch one-time broadcast!!
 08 09 2010  echo: Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours
 
 /QUOTE
 
 
 i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
 program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of make
 search key=calender |grep -1 Info | more 
 
 I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
 when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
 rid of it.
 
 anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.
 
 tia, y'all,
 
 gary
 
 PS: and now, time for a brew or maybe a =NAP=
 
 []
 
 
/usr/ports/deskutils/when

my favorite.  I've written a lot of scripts to supplement it, too:

http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen

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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 
   People,
 
   Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
   awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla 
   more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
   it to successfully spawn acroread.  

The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it
also contains how to do this.

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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread parv
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wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly...

 On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 
  People,
 
  Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
  awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla
  more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
  it to successfully spawn acroread.

 The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it
 also contains how to do this.

Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b  netscape navigator
4.8 when...

  - in ~/.mailcap i have...

  application/pdf; acroread %s


  - in netscape's Navigator-Application Helpers ...

  MIMEType: application/pdf
  Suffiexes: pdf

  Handled By-Application: acroread %s


and, similarly for mozilla (Navigator-Helper Applications).


I forgot if i had manually set the above settings or
mozilla/netscape just read ~/.mailcap  adjusted themselves.


  - Parv

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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0500, parv wrote:
 in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly...
 
  On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  
 People,
  
 Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
 awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla
 more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
 it to successfully spawn acroread.
 
  The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it
  also contains how to do this.
 
 Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b  netscape navigator
 4.8 when...
 
   - in ~/.mailcap i have...
 
   application/pdf; acroread %s
 

[[ ... ]]

Maybe I should reinstall and *hope*.  I'm running
linux-mozilla-devel-1.5RC2.  

In my ~/.mailcap is::

###application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s  /dev/null 21
application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s

The reasn for the full pathname above is that when I
first tried to read a .pdf file, the ERROR was that 
l-m-d couldn't find aacroread.  

thanks for your help,

gary

 

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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:17:04PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0500, parv wrote:
  in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
  wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly...
  
   On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   
People,
   
Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla
more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
it to successfully spawn acroread.
  
   The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it
   also contains how to do this.
  
  Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b  netscape navigator
  4.8 when...
  
- in ~/.mailcap i have...
  
application/pdf; acroread %s
  
 
   [[ ... ]]
 
   Maybe I should reinstall and *hope*.  I'm running
   linux-mozilla-devel-1.5RC2.  
 
   In my ~/.mailcap is::
 
   ###application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s  /dev/null 21
   application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s
 
   The reasn for the full pathname above is that when I
   first tried to read a .pdf file, the ERROR was that 
   l-m-d couldn't find aacroread.  
 

Sorry for reposting atop my last post, but I just added the
full pathname to the Helper Applications filetypes window.
Now, no more errors, but  acroread disappears almost 
instantly once the pdf file is saved to the Cache.  I can
use acroread to read the pdf file by-hand.  Strange... .

gary



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ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-08 Thread Gary Kline

People,

Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla 
more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
it to successfully spawn acroread.  

Any moz wizards out there who can clue me in?   So far, I
see an ERROR about /dev/null; when I edit my ~/.mailcap 
and axe the  /dev/null, mozilla's ERROR is that it 
can't determine the cwd.

Anybody?

tia, guys,

gary

PS:  running the devel version of linux-mozilla.

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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-08 Thread David Gerard
On 11/08/03 22:45, Gary Kline wrote:

	Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
	awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla 
	more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
	it to successfully spawn acroread.  
 

Heh. I gave up and just set Firebird to spawn xpdf as needed :-)

- d.



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Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:56:48AM +, David Gerard wrote:
 On 11/08/03 22:45, Gary Kline wrote:
 
  Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
  awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla 
  more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
  it to successfully spawn acroread.  
  
 
 
 Heh. I gave up and just set Firebird to spawn xpdf as needed :-)
 
 
Hm. Well, maybe that's what I get for using the bleeding
edge -devel-1.5

(*mumble*)

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