From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 14 21:03:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA23923 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA23918 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA10986; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:03:32 -0700 (PDT) To: "Gary T. Corcoran" cc: Michael Smith , Amancio Hasty , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:10:44 EDT." <33A35D34.2F1CF0FB@idt.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:03:32 -0700 Message-ID: <10981.866347412@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > You gotta be joking! BSD/OS netscape doesn't even support plugins 8( > > This isn't true - unless you define 'plugin' differently than I do... He's defining plug-in the way netscape defines it. Any personal definitions of your own you may have for this term aren't really that applicable in this case and should be confined to your own private lexicon. :-) > I have and use the RealAudio 'plugin' for BSD Netscape. They're also > known as "helper applications"... No, you are quite incorrect. Helper applications are known as helper applications. Plug-ins are known as plug ins. They're totally different animals and should not be confused, OK? :) One good reason that they shouldn't be confused is that FreeBSD supports any number of helpers but NO plug-ins due to the fact that, well, Netscape hasn't availed themselves of our dlfoo() routines and BSDI's shared library interface SUCKS with a capital S. Jordan