Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > : ((ls);(ls)) > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > : > : It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns > : an external helper: > : ((gv temp_file.ps);(rm temp_file.ps)) > : > : In tcsh it works, however I cannot force Netscape to spawn processes in > : tcsh. > > bash-2.00 introduced this 'feature' of not-working indeed. Upgrade to 2.01 > and everything will be fine again. > > bye, > > Remco
Dear Remco, not everything is fine. I have done according to your advice: got bash-2.01 source and compiled it. Netscape works now, but when a non-privileged user run startx, there is a message: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: >Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description > Exiting How can you comment this? Witold -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .