I have Apache (from the debian distribution 1.3) running on a Toshiba 530CDT notebook running Linux 2.0.30 (debian 1.3). I also have Netscape communicator 4.04 on the same machine. When I configure edit preferences navigator applications to use acroread to open URLs pointing to pdf files as follows:
Description Portable Document Format MIME type application/pdf Suffixs pdf Application /usr/bin/acroread %s I get an error when I open URLs that point to pdf documents. The error is in the shell command communicator tries to run with sh: ((/usr/bin/acroread /tmp/MOsomething.pdf); rm /tmp/MOsomething.pdf)& where MOsomething.pdf is a temporary file in the /tmp directory. The problem is the (mis)matching of the parentheses. When run in an xterm window, I get the same error message. Apparently, the problem is with bash (/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash) which complains about about the following syntax: ((echo A); echo B) Interestingly, at work we use bash on both SGI and Sun workstations. bash on Sun does have the same problem, while bash on SGI doesn't. Is there a clean solution? Jan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .