Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:36:32 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 Message-ID: <199511280136.RAA00693@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:37:39 %2B1100." <199511280837.TAA19625@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> Bruce Evans said:
> >> Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searche
s
> >> for the mail spool directory in /usr/spool/mail. Any ideas on how we
> >> can get get around this?
>
> >Naturally, you could fix it if you had the source.
>
> You could fix it by editing the binary if the binary isn't doesn't build
> the string in a complicated way. E.g.,
>
> echo '/usr/s/usr/var/
> w netscape.bin.test' | ed netscape.bin
>
> correctly replaces the first `usr' by `var'. vi is almost as 8-bit clean.
> It appends a newline. There are several binary editors in ports which
> might be able to handle this better (a binary editor should be able to
> edit /dev/mem and /dev/rsd0...).
>
Odd, I just did an emacs on the linux netscape and replace /usr/spool by
/var and then after the null added six spaces 8)
Amancio
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