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Re: Diagnosing "helper app spawn" errors with Netscape 4

G. Crimp (ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:30:59 -0800

Regarding the problems bash 2.00 has in interpreting Netscape generated
scripts for invoking helper apps,

On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:52:47PM -0800, Ed Casas wrote:
>
> I fixed this problem by replacing /bin/sh with ash. It probably
> starts faster and it's a good way to root out non-portable
> constructs in shell scripts.

I tried this, too. It does remedy the error, but now, for a .pdf file for
example, it will start the acrobat reader, but it gets started bare naked --
no file gets opened. Do I need to put some argument variables after the
acroread command name in preferences ?

TIA,

Gerald Crimp