[Visualpython-users] browser won't work under OS 10.3.2

[Joe H. <hea...@ct...>]

I've successfully built VPython on my iBook and my iMac using Kelvin 
Chu's instructions. I'm having two issues, one of which I've solved and 
the other I've not.

1) After installing Fink, /sw/bin isn't included in the PATH when I 
launch xterm under X11. However, if I issue "source .profile" inside an 
xterm window it gets added to PATH. There is no problem under Apple's 
Terminal (generally not used when X11 is running). Since ~/.profile 
isn't being read by the bash shell, the environment must be set 
somewhere by X11, but I've not found where yet.

2) Under Jaguar (OS 10.2.x) setting the environment variable 
BROWSER=open allowed docs to be invoked by pressing F1. This doesn't 
work under 10.3.x even when I explicitly manually set this env variable 
in an xterm. I've not yet found a solution to this. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Joe Heafner -- Astronomy/Physics Instructor (by some definitions)