Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!bighorn.accessnv.com!news.sprintlink.net!demon!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!edi.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!news3.near.net!shore.shore.net!news
From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Date: 20 Jun 1995 16:59:59 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <3s6uqf$4ta@shore.shore.net>
References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com
Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] wrote in article <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de> :
>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?
Yes. They do it to get a rise out of people like you.
>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.
>Disgusted....
Fine. Then run the mac or windows version. Is someone holding a gun
to your head and forcing you to use FreeBSD?
>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 ?
Because you aren't running mac/windows, and the designers wanted to
add another obscure message just to liven your day.