ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:17:04PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0500, parv wrote:
> > in message <20031110005623.GE553 at dds.nl>,
> > wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly...
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 	People,
> > > >
> > > > 	Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
> > > > 	awhile but I finally got it.  I've been using mozilla
> > > > 	more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
> > > > 	it to successfully spawn acroread.
> > >
> > > The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it
> > > also contains how to do this.
> > 
> > Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b & netscape navigator
> > 4.8 when...
> > 
> >   - in ~/.mailcap i have...
> > 
> >       application/pdf; acroread %s
> > 
> 
> 	[[ ... ]]
> 
> 	Maybe I should reinstall and *hope*.  I'm running
> 	linux-mozilla-devel-1.5RC2.  
> 
> 	In my ~/.mailcap is::
> 
> 	###application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s > /dev/null 2>&1
> 	application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s
> 
> 	The reasn for the full pathname above is that when I
> 	first tried to read a .pdf file, the ERROR was that 
> 	l-m-d couldn't find aacroread.  
> 

	Sorry for reposting atop my last post, but I just added the
	full pathname to the Helper Applications filetypes window.
	Now, no more errors, but  acroread disappears almost 
	instantly once the pdf file is saved to the Cache.  I can
	use acroread to read the pdf file by-hand.  Strange... .

	gary



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