Closed Bug 177236 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

helper app's cannot take command line arguments

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
SGI
IRIX
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57420

People

(Reporter: nickb, Assigned: asa)

Details

There doesn't seem to be any way to specify command line arguments for helper apps.

Netscape used to support %s and %u (filename and url), and allowed arguments for
called apps. Eg:
/usr/frame/bin/fmclient -f %s

Is the command line for calling frame maker to view a document. 
Entering "/usr/frame/bin/fmclient -f" doesn't work either (I am guessing the 
whole line is exec'ed, hence causing a file not found error).

I think this probably happens on all *nix's.

I have found this on IRIX, using Mozilla 1.0.1.
Also, the helper app's names should have whitespace stripped off each end, as this
causes them to fail also.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57420 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Ack, I did, just missed that, sorry.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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