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Date:      Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:30:11 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "F. Heinrichmeyer" <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: linux-acrobat-4.05 only works with linux-netscape!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000301213011.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <38BCC76D.9F919F46@fernuni-hagen.de>

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On 01-Mar-00 F. Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> I had until now no success in using the new linux-acrobat-4.05 from bash
> or from my windowmanager menu. But it works fine when called from
> linux-netscape!

Perhaps this happens because the 'acroread4' program is a shell script
with bash'ism's.. It fails normally because the shell is /bin/sh but when
run from Netscape it finds /compat/linux/bin/sh (which is bash) and works..

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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