[Summary - Netscape fails when launching helper apps under bash 2.0
because of a bug handling nested parens.]
Daniel wrote:
This is a known bash bug, and bash 2.01 fixes it. I have a bash 2.01
compiled for my bo system - if anyone wants it, it's available in:
I recently switched to debian 1.31 (from a homebrew system based
loosely on slackware), and with it came bash 2.x, which I had been
avoiding for irrational reasons - or maybe not. I installed Netscape
Communicator 4.04 and the Real Audio player (v5.02beta, the latest),
and followed the directions
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently switched to debian 1.31 (from a homebrew system based
loosely on slackware), and with it came bash 2.x, which I had been
avoiding for irrational reasons - or maybe not. I installed Netscape
Communicator 4.04 and the Real Audio player (v5.02beta, the
On 6 Jan 1998, Mark Montague wrote:
I had the same problem and ended up replacing sh with bash 1.14.5(1),
which I had lying around from an old slackware backup or something. I
don't think this is a good solution, though.
I saw some old discussion claiming that this is a netscape bug, but
Mark Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've established that Communicator always fires off helper apps using
similar syntax by invoking /bin/sh. My question is, if I were to
replace /bin/sh (which is a symlink to /bin/bash) with something else
(ash, or
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