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Xref: sserve comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:578 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2302 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!darwin.sura.net!news.cc.ucf.edu!mike From: mike@skynet.oir.ucf.edu (Mike Bray) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous Date: 21 Jun 1995 15:27:53 GMT Organization: Office of Instructional Resources Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3s9dpp$opm@news.cc.ucf.edu> References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <JWZ.95Jun19165655@abattoir.netscape.com> <holm.803648041@carme> NNTP-Posting-Host: skynet.oir.ucf.edu In article <holm.803648041@carme>, ]ke Holmlund <holm@informatik.umu.se> wrote: >What REALLY sucks is the implementation of netscape-preferenses. I've posted >a question about this before and as far as I can se there i NO way to >make a decent installation of preferences for Netscape in a UNIX environment!! >A good application should have a global AND a user-specific configuration file >where the configurations saved (changed) in the user-specific file overrides >the global configuration. We don't have Netscape generally available for >our user because of this fatal flaw. Actually, this IS the way it works. You can set up a global mime.types file and a global mailcap file (although the particular directory location escapes me right now...) After that you can set up the files ~/.mime.types and ~/.mailcap (the *usual* filenames) in each users directory which will override and supplement the global versions. -- ( Michael D. Bray | 'I know engineers, they love to change things.' ) ( mike@skynet.oir.ucf.edu | ~ Bones McCoy ) ( bray@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu |-------------------------------------------------) ( mxb@engr.ucf.edu | http://www.oir.ucf.edu/~mike | Peace )