Subject: Using ns-remote as 'netscape' package
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: None <abs@purplei.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/30/2000 08:49:02
Currently the communicator package installs $LOCALBASE/bin/netscape
This has two downsides
a) It leaves navigator users without a netscape command.
b) It starts a new netscape process even if one is running.
The 'ns-open' command (part of the 'ns-remote' package) avoids
problem b) by sending a command to an existing netscape to open
a new window, and starting up a new netscape binary if that fails.
I'd like to rename ns-remote to netscape, and have it depend on
either communicator or navigator, probably defaulting to
communicator (even though I prefer navigator myself :). At runtime
if either communicator or navigator are running it will just ask
them to open a new window. If neither communicator or navigator
are running it will check for them ${LOCALBASE/bin, looking for
communicator first - this of course would be overridable by
setting an environment variable, maybe NETSCAPE_PREFERRED?
What do people think?
David/absolute
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