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From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Message-ID: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 02:29:47 GMT
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Hello,
can anybody give me a good reason why Netscape Mac/Windows has nice
comfortable configuration dialogs for helper applications, while
Netscape/X doesn't, but wants me to create obscure ascii files with
undocumented syntax?
This is utterly ridiculous! No, I'm not familiar with Metamail internals,
and, given the ridiculous state of (not existing) documentation, I have not
the slightest intention to learn how to write mailcaps or mimetypes files.
Just for Netscape recognising mpeg this is completely wasted time.
(Oh, and while we are at it - of course netscape chokes when reading the
example mailcaps file in the Metamail package - after all, why should
two programs using the same configuration file recognise the same syntax ?
If they absolutely must evaluate these files, they should make it an
additional option. This is a nice example where using unix is made
artificially complicated. After all, It's probably the same code base.
Disgusted....
Christoph Weber-Fahr
P.S. to the FreeBSD side - why does Netscape give an error message about
a failed uname() call on startup, when running on 2.0R ?
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Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049
Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern
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