---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Fredrik Ax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Fernando Tadeu C Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > > > > > Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open > > > postscripts, sound file, etc: > > > > > > sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression > > > sh: -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > > > sh: -c line 1: '((gv /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1); rm /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1 )&' > > > > [SNIP] > > > This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo. > > > > The problem is that bash interpretates "((" not as two seperate brackets > but as a bracket for expression evaluated according to the arithmetic > evaluation rules and therefore misses the closing "))" bracket. > > > > I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo > > version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to > > be very careful when you do upgrade to hamm if you have that version > > installed (I found out the hard way). > > A faster solution whould be to install "ash" wich is distributed in > version 0.2-1 in bo. Use dselect, or for even faster install > "dpkg -i bo/binary/shells/ash_0.2-1.deb" from your Debian 1.3x > distribution. > > When installed change the symlink name sh in /bin to point at ash > instead of bash: > > % cd /bin > % ln -sf ash sh > Okay, maybe this was a stupid thing to do, but I used emacs to edit the binaries. On line 17183 of my version of netscape (4.04) I changed the line (([EMAIL PROTECTED] %s | ^@); rm %.200s )& to ( ([EMAIL PROTECTED] %s| ^@ ); rm %.200s)& and things seemed to work just fine. At least I got rvplayer to work that way and netscape doesn't crash (so far). I'm sure the better solution is to upgrade to hamm, but I'm waiting for the code freeze before I order the cd's (I just have this hangup about using something that says unstable). - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]