Re: [Fink-users] netscape & unpacked estimator

[Anthony A. <iqg...@as...>]

Thank you for the reply and for the help. I will probably update apt as 
soon as possible. With regards to the xfig solution, there is then a 
few problems with that. The first is that it doesn't appear as if the 
Global Settings save themselves for future use, which seems odd (I 
would expect a .xfig pref file in my home directory, but I do not see 
anything), so one needs to change those repeatedly. The second is that 
one must do the same thing with acroread. Then, one runs into the 
problem when using Grace (xmgrace) where there is no preference 
anywhere from what I can find where the user specifies this. To combat 
this, I made 2 symlinks to /usr/bin/open and named them netscape and 
acroread and now the programs like Grace that have the netscape 
hardcoded into them can open the Help files. Would it be possible to 
have these symlinks in the /sw/bin directory tree and for it to work 
when programs like xfig and Grace call for help? Thanks.

-Anthony

On Aug 29, 2004, at 4:53 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>
>> Hello and thanks for your help. I have 2 issues with FINK that are 
>> not shall we say mission critical, but should probably be addressed 
>> sometime.
>> 1) When I use a program like xfig that uses HTML for its help files, 
>> it tries to launch 'netscape' to view them...but there is no netscape 
>> and thus the loading fails. So, since I have Firefox installed, I 
>> added a symlink to /usr/local/bin called netscape and had it point to 
>> Firefox. This appears like it should work...for example, when I type 
>> netscape www.google.com at the Terminal.app prompt, Firefox loads up 
>> google. However, when used with the help, all that happens is Firefox 
>> loads to the home page. Is there a way of fixing this?
>
> In the xfig preferences (Edit->Global Settings), there is a line with 
> the exact command for viewing the help files. If you write the line
>
>   open %f
>
> there, it will use your default OSX web browser - normally Safari - to 
> view the pages. If you prefere Firefox, write the corresponding line 
> there. "%f" is the file name.
>
>> 2) I have noticed this many times, but I figure this example is a 
>> potent one. I am currently downloading latex2html (via apt-get) and 
>> it says
>> Need to get 1028kB of archives. After unpacking 1938MB will be freed.
>> The 2 GB seems a bit much. If there is nothing wrong with that 
>> number, what am I not understanding about it? In case it is needed, 
>> here is my info:
>> Mac OS X 10.3.5 / XCode 1.5
>> Package manager version: 0.18.4
>> Distribution version: 0.7.0
>> Anyways, thanks again and I wanted to give kudos to the Fink team for 
>> its hard work and high-quality porting.
>
> I think this extra factor of 1024 was removed some versions of apt 
> ago. Maybe you should update apt? Also, fink-0.18.4 is getting a bit 
> long in the tooth. BTW, for a very long time, apt-get always pretended 
> that "0B" would be needed or freed. So the version you are seeing is 
> already vastly improved.
>
> -- 
> Martin
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