Using netscape with zsh linked as sh

Using netscape with zsh linked as sh

[Alain Caron]

I have a problem when using netscape and zsh is linked to sh.

The problem was that netscape usually launches a command of the form:

sh -c "(( ghostview /tmp/temporaryFile ); /bin/rm /tmp/temporaryFile)

This fails because zsh interprets this as a mathematical expression.

I remember that, around a month ago, there were some discussion
regarding this problem and some work-around was described.

I changed job and lost my previous mail relative to this topic.  And I
am not able to find the archives about this.

Could someone send me the information.

Thanks in advance.

Alain Caron
Sanga Research Corporation
email: alainc@sangacorp.com

Re: Using netscape with zsh linked as sh

[Zoltan T. Hidvegi]

Alain Caron wrote:
> The problem was that netscape usually launches a command of the form:
>
> sh -c "(( ghostview /tmp/temporaryFile ); /bin/rm /tmp/temporaryFile)

Apply the latest patches from the testing subdirectory of zsh ftp sites
(zsh-3.0.3-test5.diff.gz for zsh-3.0.2 and zsh-3.1.2-test1.diff.sh.gz for
zsh-3.1.1), or wait for a new release.

Zoltan

Re: Using netscape with zsh linked as sh

[Clint Adams]

> sh -c "(( ghostview /tmp/temporaryFile ); /bin/rm /tmp/temporaryFile)

Run the netscape binary through this expression using sed or perl

's/\(\(\0cat %s \| \0\);/\( \0cat %s \| \0 ;/'

e.g.

sed 's/\(\(\0cat %s \| \0\);/\( \0cat %s \| \0 ;/' < netscape.binary >netscape.binary.patched