ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm?
Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > important things are the suffix and which option you selected in > the 'handled by' section. i was confused by the fact, that peter and you had _exactly_ the same MIMIEType for the gz case. there seemed to be a known source of that types, which i was not aware of. my own formely experiments couldn´t work, because i used ´.gz´ instead of ´gz´. blush. i´ve now finished my customization of communicator and done as follows (all tested) excerpt from ~.mime.types: #mime types added by Netscape Helper type=application/x-gzip-compressed \ desc="Gzip archive file" \ exts="z,gz" #mime types added by Netscape Helper type=application/x-compress \ desc="Compress archive file" \ exts="Z" excerpt from Netscape.ad: !*encodingFilters: \ ! x-compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n\ ! compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n ! x-gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n\ ! gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n and the link /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape -> /usr/lib/netscape/Netscape.ad of course, if you´re using another netscape, eg. 4.07, then this link probably would point to another directory. > B) I'm glad you got it working for you Hartmut, but guess what, I > don't need to comment out those lines in Netscape.ad, nor do I > need the link to app-defaults/Netscape. In fact, I don't even > *have* a .../app-defaults/netscape file! Nor does NS strip the > suffix on me, as reported by someone else. my experiments have shown, that in the absence of the mentioned link netscape uses its own - probably compiled in - Netscape.ad. therefore i would bet, that in one of your configuration files - xinit, xressources et alia - is a reference to netscape, which causes such behaviour. i recommend a grep ´etscape´ over such files. maybe also, that preferences.js is guilty. > > C) For everyone elses benifit: I'm using NS Communicator 4.6. My > first version was 4.05. I had these reported problems then. In > the process of trying to fix things, I added the > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries for files with *.gz > and many other suffixes. At one point I was manually editing ^^ dangerous > .mime.types because the entries I made were becoming corrupted for > some reason. I never did get things working as I wanted, but now > I can't remember the specifics, besides the corrupted .mime.types > entries. When I upgraded to 4.5 the problems disappeared, and I > never gave it any more thought. The upgrades preserved these > entries I had made so they are still with me. well, quite recently i had to play with different versions of the communicator and wanted not to be disturbed by errors perhaps contained in the recent version. i´ve done this: since i started with communicator 4.6, i created a directory ~/ns46 and copied all netscape related directories and files of ~ to ~/ns46. then i purged the old communicator, looked, if all files had gone - don´t remember exactly if all was automatically deleted - and installed communicator 4.61. ´twas no problem, to get back my bookmarks and the addressbook. hafi