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Re: RealAudio and Netscape4

Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:47:40 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Ted Powell wrote:

> The root of the problem is that when Netscape attempts to invoke a
> helper application it generates a string containing '(('. For any shell
> that implements the Arithmetic command, '((' constitutes the beginning
> of such a command....

Actually, not *any* shell. NetBSD's /bin/sh implements the arithmetic
command as $((...)).

The irony here, of course, is that when I installed the Linux
version of Realaudio on my NetBSD system, I didn't have these
problems. :-)

cjs

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