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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:55:26 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br, bde@zeta.org.au, bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 2.0b3
Message-ID:  <199511301855.LAA01153@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511301441.PAA07944@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Nov 30, 95 03:41:22 pm

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> > > >>         Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searches
> > > >> 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Excuse me,
> > 
> > 
> > Why just do a simbolic link of the directories 
> > ln -s /var/mail /usr/spool???
> > Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.
> 
> polluting directories with hard links to fix programs with hardcoded
> pathnames is A Bad Thing, IMHO, and always causes confusion when,
> after a few {days|weeks|months} one forgets about the existence of
> the link.  Especially if there is a different solution using
> environment variables or program options

more like ln -s /var/mail /usr/compat/bsdi/usr/spool

8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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