> When I try to run "helper apps" from Netscape (if I'm even lucky enough
> to have it notice the mimecap entry), I get an error like this:
>
> sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetci expression
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';'
> sh: -c: line 1: '((/usr/local/bin/rvplayer /tmp/<filename>); rm /tmp/<filename>) &'
>
> My sh is a symlink to bash, which as far as I understand it is plug
> compatible to sh... so why is bash choking on the syntax?
>
I have this same problem myself. I can't remember which news group
I was in but I have seen some discussion of this on usenews. Apparently the
problem is a bug in version 2.00 of bash. Misintrprets the parentheses
somehow. The solution proposed ( and apparently successfully carried out by
some of the posters) was to use a different version of bash. This problem was
apparently only present in version 2.00.
I so infrequently require helper apps that I have not yet tried this
out myself. Can't offer any direct experience, only the above hearsay.
Good luck.
Gerald Crimp