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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:13:57 -0700
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:

> 	Sounds somewhat like my experience with getting things to
> 	Just Work {TM}.  Took me altogether several days to get
> 	java, javavm, jdk,sdk, whatevertheheck to work with 
> 	l-mozilla and the flashplugin and acrobat and realplayer.
> 
> 	Now it works; but installing it on my laptop is more than
> 	a chore-and-a-half.  Not worth the effort.  Maybe someday
> 	I'll figure it out and put together a cookbook tutorial.
> 	Make it my life's goal to keep it current... .

For pdf and mozilla, I just use xpdf and have it set to feed that file
to xpdf if I click on one.